(Schack) August (Steenberg) Krogh

Physiologist, born in Grenå, NC Denmark. He studied at Copenhagen, and became professor of animal physiology there (1916–45). He researched the process of respiration, gas exchange in the lung, and the supply of oxygen to muscle tissue, discovering the motor-regulating mechanism of capillaries. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1920.

Schack August Steenberg Krogh (November 15, 1874 – September 13, 1949) was a Danish professor of Roma Gypsy ancestry at the department of zoophysiology at the University of Copenhagen from 1916-1945.

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 a pioneer in comparative studies on animals.

Krogh brought insulin to Denmark shortly after its discovery in 1922 by Banting and Best in Toronto.

Much of Krogh's work was carried out in collaboration with his wife, Marie Krogh (1874-1943), a renowned scientist in her own right.

In 1910 August Krogh founded the first laboratory for animal physiology (zoophysiology) at the University of Copenhagen. The building also gave place to the institutes of medical physiology and biophysics, and to the institute for the theory of gymnastics (exercise physiology). Today, the disciplines of animal physiology, exercise physiology, and some of the biochemical subdisciplines under the Faculty of Science are based at the August Krogh Institute, a building inaugurated in 1970.

Torkel Weis-Fogh, an eminent pioneer on the study of insect flight, was a student of August Krogh's.

(description partly taken from Copenhagen University)

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Laureates (1901-1925)

1901: Behring | 1902: Ross | 1903: Finsen | 1904: Pavlov | 1905: Koch | 1906: Golgi, Ramón y Cajal | 1907: Laveran | 1908: Mechnikov, Ehrlich | 1909: Kocher | 1910: Kossel | 1911: Gullstrand | 1912: Carrel | 1913: Bárány | 1919: Bordet | 1920: Krogh | 1922: Hill, Meyerhof | 1923: Banting, Macleod | 1924: Einthoven Complete List | Laureates (1926-1950) | Laureates (1951-1975) | Laureates (1976-2000) |