
Herbert Spencer Gasser
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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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Dr. Herbert S. Gasser Is Dead; Won Nobel Prize for Medicine; Shared '44 Award for Work in Nerve Fibers--Ex-Head of Rockefeller Institute. (Published 1963)