Erlanger
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/ ˈɜr læŋ ər /
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noun
Joseph, 1874–1965, U.S. physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1944.
a city in N Kentucky.
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Erlanger
/ (ˈɜːlæŋə) /
noun
Joseph. 1874–1965, US physiologist. He shared a Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1944) with Gasser for their work on the electrical signs of nervous activity
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