| Authorised form of name | Gasser; Herbert Spencer (1888 - 1963) |
| Dates | 1888 - 1963 |
| Nationality | American |
| Place of birth | Platteville, Wisconsin, USA |
| Date of birth | 05 July 1888 |
| Place of death | New York, New York, USA |
| Date of death | 11/05/1963 |
| Research field | Physiology |
| Activity | Medals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) 1944 |
| Membership category | Foreign Member |
| Date of election | 09/05/1946 |
| Source | Sources:
DSB
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1964 vol 10 pp 75-82, plate, by Adrian |
| Code | NA653 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1946/26 | Gasser, Herbert Spencer: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| HD/25/21 | Presentation album for Henry Dale on his retirement from the National Institute for Medical Research | 30 September 1942 |
| RR/30/72 | Referee's report by William Bate Hardy, on a paper 'The dynamics of muscular contraction' by Herbert Spencer Gasser and Archibald Vivian Hill | [1924] |