Herbert Spencer Gasser

American physiologist (1888–1963)

Gasser, the son of a country doctor from Platteville, Wisconsin, was educated at the University of Wisconsin and at Johns Hopkins University. Having qualified as a physician in 1915, he moved to Washington University, St. Louis, to take up an appointment as professor of pharmacology. Here he joined his old teacher, Joseph Erlanger, in a famous collaboration that resulted in their sharing the 1944 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for work on the differentiated function of nerve fibers. In 1931 Gasser was appointed to the chair of physiology at Cornell Medical School. Finally, in 1935, he was made director of the Rockefeller Institute in New York, a post he retained until his retirement in 1953.

American physiologist. He shared a 1944 Nobel Prize for research on the functions of nerve fibers.

Herbert Spencer Gasser
Born	July 5, 1888 Platteville, Wisconsin
Died	May 11, 1963
Nationality	United States
Fields	Physiology
Alma mater	Johns Hopkins University
Known for	Action potentials
Notable awards	Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1944)

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.

References

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