Birth Name: Joseph Erlanger
Occupation: Pharmacologist
Place Of Birth: San Francisco
Date Of Birth: January 5, 1874
Date Of Death: December 5, 1965
Cause Of Death: N/A
Ethnicity: Unknown
Nationality: American
Joseph Erlanger was born on the 5th of January, 1874. He was famous for being a Pharmacologist. Co-recepient, with Herbert Spencer Gasser, of the 1944 Nobel Prize in Medicine, for their research into nerve conduction. He helped identify several varieties of nerve fiber and did important work into the relationship between action potential velocity and fiber diameter.
Joseph Erlanger was born in San Francisco. He was the first Professor of Physiology at the Medical School of the University of Wisconsin, where Gasser was one of his students. He was studying the circulatory system before turning his research to the nervous system, and in 1922 he and Gasser adapted an oscillograph to study how nerves conduct signals.
Joseph Erlanger was a Capricorn and was born in the G.I. Generation.
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Joseph Erlanger was born in 1870s.
Joseph Erlanger is part of G.I. Generation also known as The Greatest Generation. This generation experienced much of their youth during the Great Depression and rapid technological innovation such as the radio and the telephone. The initials "G.I." is military terminology referring to "Government Issue" or "General Issue".
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Joseph Erlanger was born in the Year of the Dog.
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| REAL NAME: | Joseph Erlanger |
| NICKNAME: | Joseph |
| RELIGION: | Unknown |
| AGE GENERATION: | G.I. Generation |
| BIRTH SIGN: | Capricorn |
| BIRTH DAY: | Monday |
| DEATH DAY: | Sunday |
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Zodiac Sign: Joseph Erlanger was a Capricorn. People of this zodiac sign like family, tradition, and dislike almost everything at some point. The strengths of this sign are being responsible, disciplined, good managers, while weaknesses can be to be the know-it-all, unforgiving, condescending and expecting the worst. The greatest overall compatibility with Capricorn is Taurus and Cancer.
Chinese Zodiac: Joseph Erlanger was born in the Year of the Dragon. People born under this sign are fiercely loyal and can always keep a secret. They're not afraid of the hardships in life, but they also tend to worry too much sometimes.
Ruling Planet: Joseph Erlanger had a ruling planet of Saturn and has a ruling planet of Saturn and by astrological associations Saturday is ruled by Saturn. Saturn is a planet of commitment and responsibility, but also restriction and delay. People who are born with Saturn as the ruling planet are disciplined and are hard workers.
Joseph Erlanger’s birth sign is Capricorn and he had a ruling planet of Saturn.
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