Danish physiologist (1874–1949)
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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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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