Awards & Winners

Herbert Spencer Gasser

Date of Birth 05-July-1888
Place of Birth Platteville
(Grant County, Wisconsin)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Scientist
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.

Awards by Herbert Spencer Gasser

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1944


Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(for their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres)