Herbert Spencer Gasser
American physiologist (1888-1963) · United States · Doctors · Died at 74
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Something wrong?Herbert Spencer Gasser was an American physiologist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1944 for his work with action potentials in nerve fibers while on the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis, awarded jointly with Joseph Erlanger.
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1963Died11 May 19631954George M. Kober MedalAward1953Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of ParisAward1946Foreign Member of the Royal SocietyAward1944Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineAward1888Born5 July 1888
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United States
Category
Doctors
Type
Doctor
Status
deceased
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Lived 1888 to 1963 · aged 74
Doctors from the United States 6
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