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August Krogh

Founder · Novo Nordisk · born November 15, 1874 · died 1949

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Schack August Steenberg Krogh 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.

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  1. ~46Received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1920
  2. ~49Founded Novo Nordisk1923

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