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August Krogh

* 1874 in Grenaa (Djursland)
+ 1949 in Copenhagen

   

August Krogh

Schack August Steenberg Krogh contributed a number of fundamental discoveries within several fields of physiology,
and is famous for developing the Krogh Principle.
In 1920 August Krogh was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
for the discovery of the mechanism of regulation of the capillaries in skeletal muscle.


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