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. He was born in Platteville, Wisconsin. He received his M.D. from Johns Hopkins University.

External links

• [National Academy of Sciences biography]
• [Gasser's biography]
• [JOSEPH ERLANGER and HERBERT SPENCER GASSER for their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres.]
• [Herbert Spencer Gasser was born in Platteville, Wisconsin, on July 5, 1888]

 

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