August Krogh - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1920
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August Krogh

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1920
for his discovery of the capillary motor regulating mechanism
Citizenship
Kingdom of Denmark Kingdom of Denmark
Languages
Danish
date of birth
11/15/1874
place of birth
Grenaa
date of death
9/13/1949
place of death
Copenhagen
Lived
74 years
member of
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1941
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1937
  • Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities
    • start time: 7/1/1932
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
    • start time: 1925
  • Royal Society of London
  • Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Royal Physiographic Society in Lund
doctoral student
  • Poul Brandt Rehberg
educated at
  • Aarhus Katedralskole
  • University of Copenhagen
field of work
  • physiology
occupation
  • zoologist
  • pedagogue
  • university teacher
  • physiologist
  • physician
  • naturalist
employer
  • University of Copenhagen
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