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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1944

"for their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres"
Joseph Erlanger Herbert Spencer Gasser
Joseph Erlanger Herbert Spencer Gasser
half 1/2 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
USA USA
Washington University
St. Louis, MO, USA		 Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
New York, NY, USA
b. 1874
d. 1965		 b. 1888
d. 1963
 
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