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August Krogh

1874 - 1949

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Schack August Steenberg Krogh (15 November 1874 – 13 September 1949) was a Danish professor at the department of zoophysiology at the University of Copenhagen from 1916 to 1945. He contributed a number of fundamental discoveries within several fields of physiology, and is famous for developing Krogh's principle. In 1920 August Krogh was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the mechanism of regulation of the capillaries in skeletal muscle. Krogh was first to describe the adaptation of blood perfusion in muscle and other organs according to demands through opening and closing the arterioles and capillaries. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. August Krogh is the 79th most popular physician (down from 76th in 2019), the 62nd most popular biography from Denmark (up from 65th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Danish Physician.

August Krogh is most famous for his work in the field of physiology. He was the first person to discover how muscles use ATP to contract.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, August Krogh ranks 79 out of 726. Before him are Christiaan Barnard, Ambroise Paré, Johannes Fibiger, Selman Waksman, Albert Szent-Györgyi, and Jens Christian Skou. After him are Eugen Bleuler, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Cyril of Jerusalem, Walter Rudolf Hess, and Hua Tuo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, August Krogh ranks 22. Before him are John D. Rockefeller Jr., Lou Henry Hoover, Lucy Maud Montgomery, António Egas Moniz, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Shackleton. After him are Nikolai Berdyaev, Alexander Kolchak, Talaat Pasha, G. K. Chesterton, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and D. F. Malan. Among people deceased in 1949, August Krogh ranks 13. Before him are Leonard Bloomfield, Kim Jong-suk, Margaret Mitchell, Friedrich Bergius, Hassan al-Banna, and James Ensor. After him are Louis II, Prince of Monaco, Charles Ponzi, Klaus Mann, Axel Munthe, Angela Hitler, and Elton Mayo.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, August Krogh ranks 62 out of 1,032. Before him are Asta Nielsen (1881), Frederick I of Denmark (1471), Haakon III of Norway (1182), Johannes Fibiger (1867), Lars von Trier (1956), and Jens Christian Skou (1918). After him are Frederick IV of Denmark (1671), Jørn Utzon (1918), S. P. L. Sørensen (1868), Inge Lehmann (1888), Tollund Man (-400), and Anders Fogh Rasmussen (1953).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Denmark

Among physicians born in Denmark, August Krogh ranks 3. Before him are Johannes Fibiger (1867), and Jens Christian Skou (1918). After him are Carl Værnet (1893), Carl Lange (1834), Christian Bohr (1855), Emil Aarestrup (1800), Max Heindel (1865), and Halfdan T. Mahler (1923).

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