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The search seeks the exact word or phrase that you type, so if you donât find your choice, try searching for a key word in your topic or recheck the spelling of a word or name. Herbert Spencer Gasser Herbert Spencer Gasser (1888-1963), American physiologist and co-winner of the 1944 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his detailed studies of the electrical activity in the nervous system. Gasser's discoveries greatly expanded knowledge of the varying properties and functions of individual nerve fibers. Gasser shared the prize with American physiologist Joseph Erlanger. Born in Platteville, Wisconsin, Gasser attended the University of Wisconsin, earning both his bachelor's degree in zoology and his master's degree in anatomy in 1910. In 1915 he received his M.D. degree from Johns Hopkins University. The next year he accepted a post in the pharmacology department at Washington University in St. Louis, where he remained until 1931, when he joined the faculty of Cornell University Medical College in New York City. In 1935 Gasser became director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University), also in New York. At Washington University in the early 1920s, Gasser and Erlanger began a project to measure and record the electrical transmission of nerve impulses. Previous research had established that nerves transmit informationâsensory data such as pain, or instructions to stimulate musclesâin the form of electricity. But the electrical signals were known to be so weak and so brief that no one had ever accurately measured them. | |
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