The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1920
Awarded on: 1920-10-28
"for his discovery of the capillary motor regulating mechanism"
Affiliations:
- Copenhagen University – Copenhagen, Denmark
Schack August Steenberg Krogh
Born: 1874-11-15 in Grenå, Denmark
Gender: male
Field: Danish physiologist (1874–1949)
Biography
Schack August Steenberg Krogh was a Danish professor at the department of zoophysiology at the University of Copenhagen from 1916 to 1945. He contributed a number of fundamental discoveries within several fields of physiology, and is famous for developing Krogh's principle.