page_title: Joseph Erlanger
hierarchical_section_title: Joseph Erlanger
caption_attribution_description: English: Joseph Erlanger House, St. Louis, Missouri Converted from pdf and cropped This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information. Object location38°&#160;38′&#160;55″&#160;N, 90°&#160;16′&#160;04″&#160;W&#160;View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth
context_page_description: Joseph Erlanger was an American physiologist. He won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Herbert Spencer Gasser, for discovering that different nerve fibres have different functions.
  He was of Jewish descent.
context_section_description: Joseph Erlanger (5 January, 1874- 5 December, 1965) was an American physiologist. He won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Herbert Spencer Gasser, for discovering that different nerve fibres have different functions.
  He was of Jewish descent.
caption: Erlanger's house in St. Louis
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