August Krogh
| Nummer | B536 |
| Type | Billeder |
| Beskrivelse | August Krogh portrait photograph. |
| Bemærkning | Schack August Steenberg Krogh (1874 -1947) was a Danish physiologist. In 1897 he began to work in the Laboratory of Medical Physiology under Professor Christian Bohr (father of Niels). When he had passed his examination in zoology, he became Bohr’s assistant. In 1908 an Associate Professorship in Zoophysiology was created for Krogh at the University of Copenhagen, and eight years later this was changed to an ordinary chair, which Krogh held till 1945, when he retired. His work went on, however, in the private laboratory at Gjentofte, erected for him with the aid of the Carlsberg and the Scandinavian Insulin Foundations.
In 1902 Krogh took part in an expedition to Disko, North Greenland, where he studied the CO2 tension and the oxygen content in the water of springs, streams and the sea. This led to important results about the role of the oceans in the regulation of the CO2 of the atmosphere. Together with J. Lindhard, Krogh, adopted an idea that had been introduced by A. Bornstein and developed their nitrous oxide method for the determination of the general blood flow, which has been of great importance for the further development in this field. These investigations resulted in the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology in 1920. |
| Periode | 1940 - 1947 |
| Fotograf | Ukendt |
| Arkiv | Niels Bohr Archive |
