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:
- Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research – New York, NY, USA
Herbert Spencer Gasser
Born: 1888-07-05 in Platteville, WI, USA
Gender: male
Field: American physiologist (1888–1963)
Biography
Herbert Spencer Gasser 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 while on the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis, awarded jointly with Joseph Erlanger.