Herbert S. Gasser M.D.
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Name: Herbert Spencer Gasser
Birth: 5 July 1888, Platteville, WI, USA
Death: 11 May 1963, New York, NY, USA
Institution: Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York, NY, USA
Award: “for their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres”
Subject: neurophysiology
Portion of cash: 1/2
Lecturer, Collaborator, Co-Nobelist: Joseph Erlanger
Not Married
Physician, Electrophysiologist, Pharmacologist. Discovered differentiated functions of single nerve fibers. Two types of nerve fibers with different thicknesses; thicker fibers convey nerve impulses fast.
Two times for working on a problem – before anyone has thought of it and after everyone else has left it – result: innovator or finalist.
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