Loading Medicine Nobel Prize
Celebrating breakthroughs in medicine and physiology.
Loading Medicine Nobel Prize
Celebrating breakthroughs in medicine and physiology.
Medicine · 1944
Joseph Erlanger received the 1944 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres. The award recognizes how this contribution changed the direction of its field. This achievement represents one of the major advances recognized in medicine at the time.