Joseph Erlanger
Joseph Erlanger | |
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| Born | January 5, 1874 |
| Died | December 5, 1965 (aged 91) |
| Alma mater | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Medicine (1944) |
Joseph Erlanger (5 January, 1874- 5 December, 1965) was an American physiologist.[1] He won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Herbert Spencer Gasser, for discovering that different nerve fibres have different functions.[2]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Biography of Joseph Erlanger". The Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2010-12-18.
- ↑ "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1944". The Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2010-12-18.
- ↑ Nobelprize.org
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