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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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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1944
“for their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Herbert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Platteville
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- physiologist
- Employer
- The Rockefeller University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- neurophysiology
- Image
- Herbert Spencer Gasser nobel.jpg
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- Commons category
- Herbert Gasser
- member of
- American Philosophical Society
- date of birth
- 1888-07-05
- date of death
- 1963-05-11
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- name in native language
- Herbert Spencer Gasser
- interested in
- physiology
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Encyclopedic overview
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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