Facts: - death place: new york city ny - caption: gasser in 1944 - work institutions: rockefeller university - death date: 11 may 1963 - field: physiology - birth date: 5 july 1888 - name: herbert spencer gasser - nationality: united states - image: herbert spencer gasser nobel.jpg - birth place: platteville , wisconsin Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of herbert spencer gasser .
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herbert spencer gasser -lrb- 5 july 1888 -- 11 may 1963 -rrb- was an american physiologist , and recipient of the nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1944 for his work with action potentials in nerve fibers while on the faculty of washington university in st. louis , awarded jointly with joseph erlanger .