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Herbert Spencer Gasser
1888 Jul, 5

Herbert Spencer Gasser

Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1963)
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 while on the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis, awarded jointly with Joseph Erlanger.

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