Herbert S. Gasser M.D.
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
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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Nobel Ceremony
Dr Joseph Erlanger, Dr Herbert S. Gasser and others receive the Noble prize at a ceremony…HD Stock Footage. 1:23.
Significant
Nobel Prize Awards made in New York. First Nobel presentation ever held outside of Stockholm.
Due to the World War it was not considered safe for American Nobelists to travel to Stockholm, Sweden to receive the Nobel Prize.