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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine
GASSER, Herbert Spencer (1888 – 1963)

GASSER, Herbert Spencer (1888 – 1963)

1888 – 1963

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1924 CE

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The compound nature of the action current of nerve as disclosed by the cathode ray oscillograph.

ERLANGER, Joseph (1874 – 1965)
ERLANGER, Joseph (1874 – 1965)
GASSER, Herbert Spencer (1888 – 1963)
GASSER, Herbert Spencer (1888 – 1963)

In 1944 Erlanger and Gasser shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries regarding the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibers."