Herbert Spencer Gasser

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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. He was born in Platteville, Wisconsin. He received his M.D. degree from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1915.
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  • Jul 5, 1888

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  • May 11, 1963 (age 74 years)

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  • 1944
  • "for their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres"
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