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Encyclopedia > Joseph Erlanger

Joseph Erlanger (San Francisco, January 5, 1874December 5, 1965 in St. Louis, Missouri) was an American physiologist. This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... January 5 is the 5th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1874 (MDCCCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... December 5 is the 339th day (340th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... Nickname: Gateway City, Gateway to the West, or Mound City Location in the state of Missouri Coordinates: Country United States State Missouri County Independent City Mayor Francis G. Slay (D) Area    - City 66. ... Physiology (in Greek physis = nature and logos = word) is the study of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of living organisms. ...


He won a Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology in 1944 for the discovery of different types of nerve fibers. Nobel Prize medal. ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physiology or Medicine from 1901 to the present day. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ... An axon, or nerve fiber, is a long slender projection of a nerve cell, or neuron, which conducts electrical impulses away from the neurons cell body or soma. ...


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Joseph Erlanger Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography (552 words)
Joseph Erlanger, the son of Herman and Sarah Erlanger, was born on Jan. 5, 1874, in San Francisco, Calif. He studied chemistry at the University of California, where he received his bachelor's degree, and then went on to Johns Hopkins University for his medical training.
The "Erlanger clamp" he designed reversibly to block the conduction of the auriculoventricular nerve bundle and thus was able to define some of the functions of this bundle in carrying impulses between the chambers of the heart.
Erlanger's later work, which continued after his retirement and after his appointment as emeritus professor, was concerned mainly with the properties of single nerve fibers and, to a lesser extent, with synaptic function.
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Erlanger taught at Johns Hopkins University (1900–6); at the Medical School of the University of Wisconsin (1906–10), in Madison; and at the Washington University School of Medicine (1910–65), in St. Louis, Mo.
Erlanger's main research was on the regulation of blood pressure and on the electrical properties of nerve impulses, especially the conduction of nerve impulses between sections of the heart.
Erlanger and Gasser were awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for “their discoveries concerning the multiple functional differences of specific nerve fibers.”
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