Herbert Spencer Gasser practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Herbert Spencer Gasser as American physiologist (1888-1963).
Herbert Spencer Gasser was born at Platteville in 1888. His recorded nationality is United States. He trained at University of Wisconsin–Madison and Johns Hopkins University.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, laboratory medicine, vaccines and public health began to change mortality at population scale.
His posts were held at Washington University in St. Louis and The Rockefeller University.
The recorded fields of work are neurophysiology.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
Recognition followed: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1944) and George M. Kober Medal (1954).
That the work was done from United States matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Herbert Spencer Gasser died in 1963, aged 75. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1944
- George M. Kober Medal — 1954
- Held posts at Washington University in St. Louis and The Rockefeller University
- Fields: neurophysiology
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