The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1944
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Joseph Erlanger
Prize share: 1/2
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Herbert Spencer Gasser
Prize share: 1/2
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1944 was awarded jointly to Joseph Erlanger and Herbert Spencer Gasser "for their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres."
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Nobel Prizes 2019
Fifteen laureates were awarded in 2019, for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind.
Their work and discoveries range from how cells adapt to changes in levels of oxygen to our ability to fight global poverty.
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Their work and discoveries range from how cells adapt to changes in levels of oxygen to our ability to fight global poverty.
See them all presented here.
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