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Krogh, Schack August Steenberg (1874–1949)


August Krogh
Danish physiologist awarded the 1920 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery that capillaries contract and expand so as to vary the amount of blood-oxygen supplied to parts of the body in accordance with their requirements.


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