The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1944
Awarded on: 1944-10-26
"for their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres"
Affiliations:
- Washington University – St. Louis, MO, USA
Joseph Erlanger
Born: 1874-01-05 in San Francisco, CA, USA
Gender: male
Field: American physiologist (1874–1965)
Biography
Joseph Erlanger was an American physiologist who is best known for his contributions to the field of neuroscience. Together with Herbert Spencer Gasser, he identified several varieties of nerve fiber and established the relationship between action potential velocity and fiber diameter. They were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1944 for these achievements.