"for discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres."
JOSEPH ERLANGER WAS BORN IN SAN FRANCISCO, ON JANUARY 5, 1874. He received the B.S. degree in chemistry from the University of California, and in 1899 the M.D. degree from the Johns Hopkins University. After serving for one year as interne In the Johns Hopkins Hospital he was appointed assistant in the Department of Physiology at the Johns Hopkins University Medical School under Dr, William H. Howell, then served successively as instructor, associate, and associate professor at that school. He then went to the University of Wisconsin as the first professor of physiology in the newly organized medical school there, where one of his pupils was Herbert S. Gasser. In 1910 he was appointed professor of physiology and head of the department in the reorganized medical school of Washington University, St. Louis. Gasser later rejoined him there and their work together was carried out in St. Louis. Dr. Erlanger became emeritus professor In 1944.