Joseph Erlanger | |
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Born | (1874-01-05)January 5, 1874 |
Died | December 5, 1965(1965-12-05) (aged 91) |
Alma mater | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine |
Awards | Nobel Prize in Medicine (1944) |
Joseph Erlanger (5 January, 1874- 5 December, 1965) was an American physiologist.[1] He won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Herbert Spencer Gasser, for discovering that different nerve fibres have different functions.[2]