August Krogh
Physiologist
1874-11-15 – 1949-09-13
August Krogh was a Danish physiologist who won the 1920 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on capillary regulation in skeletal muscle. He made foundational contributions to respiratory and comparative physiology.
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Quotes by August Krogh
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The circulatory system of man and the vertebrate animals can be considered as made up of a small number of organs or subordinate systems, which are easy to recognize anatomically, and the functions of which are on the whole quite distinct.
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In the numerous observations made in my laboratory upon this object, we have only once seen a combination of vessels in which there might be a direct communication between a small artery and a vein, though the two observers could not come to a final conclusion on the point.
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