August Krogh
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August Krogh was a Danish physiologist who lived from 1874 to 1949 and made important contributions to understanding how living organisms function at a biological level. His work matters because it advanced fundamental knowledge about physiology that has influenced medicine and biology ever since.
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- Predicting transmembrane protein topology with a hidden markov model: application to complete genomes11Edited by F. Cohen
· 2001 · cited 11,468x
- Deciphering the biology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the complete genome sequence
· 1998 · cited 6,479x
- Linear methods in band theory
· 1975 · cited 6,225x
- Simulations of the formation, evolution and clustering of galaxies and quasars
· 2005 · cited 4,133x
- Social class and mental illness: Community study.
· 1958 · cited 3,543x
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Schack August Steenberg Krogh ForMemRS (15 November 1874 – 13 September 1949) was a Danish professor at the department of zoophysiology at the University of Copenhagen from 1916 to 1945. He contributed a number of fundamental discoveries within several fields of physiology, and is famous for developing Krogh's principle.
In 1920 August Krogh was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the mechanism of regulation of the capillaries in skeletal muscle. Krogh was first to describe the adaptation of blood perfusion in muscle and other organs according to demands through opening and closing the arterioles and capillaries.
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1874 births1949 deathsDanish Nobel laureatesDanish physiologistsForeign associates of the National Academy of SciencesForeign members of the Royal SocietyInternational members of the American Philosophical SocietyNobel laureates in Physiology or MedicineNovo Nordisk peoplePeople from Norddjurs Municipality