Herbert Spencer Gasser
American physiologist (1888-1963)
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Herbert Spencer Gasser was an American physiologist who lived from 1888 to 1963 and made important contributions to understanding how nerve fibers transmit electrical signals. His work advanced the field of neuroscience and helped establish fundamental principles about how the nervous system communicates.
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- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,328x
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· 2020 · cited 12,740x
- Recommendations for Cardiac Chamber Quantification by Echocardiography in Adults: An Update from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging
· 2015 · cited 11,557x
- Speeded-Up Robust Features (SURF)
· 2008 · cited 11,290x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,795x
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Herbert Spencer Gasser (July 5, 1888 – May 11, 1963) 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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1888 births1963 deaths20th-century American peopleAmerican fellows of the Royal SocietyAmerican Nobel laureatesAmerican people of Austrian descentAmerican people of German-Russian descentAmerican physiologistsCornell University facultyForeign members of the Royal SocietyJohns Hopkins University alumniMembers of the American Philosophical Society