1. Joseph Erlanger was an American physiologist who is best known for his contributions to the field of neuroscience.
11 Facts About Joseph Erlanger
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Joseph Erlanger's family was Jewish and his parents both immigrated from the Kingdom of Wurttemberg, Germany and met in California during the Gold Rush.
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Joseph Erlanger was the sixth of seven children born to the couple.
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Joseph Erlanger completed his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1895.
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Joseph Erlanger gave lectures at the school on digestion and metabolism.
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Joseph Erlanger had an interest in cardiology, specifically the way that excitation transferred from the atrium to the ventricle and researched with Arthur Hirschfelder.
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Joseph Erlanger developed and patented a new type of sphygmomanometer that could measure blood pressure from the brachial artery.
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Joseph Erlanger was promoted to associate professor some time before 1906.
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In 1906, Joseph Erlanger accepted a position as the first chair of physiology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
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Joseph Erlanger was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1922 and the American Philosophical Society in 1927.
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Joseph Erlanger died of heart disease on December 5,1965, at St Louis, Missouri.