The Hindu·4 min read·medium
August Krogh’s Nobel winning discovery of oxygen supply to muscles
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Athira Elssa Johnson
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This article profiles Danish physiologist August Krogh, who won the 1920 Nobel Prize for his research on capillary motor mechanisms. His work explained how muscles receive oxygen during exercise and remains foundational to modern cardiovascular and exercise medicine.
In 1920, Danish physiologist August Krogh was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for his discovery of the capillary motor regulating mechanism.”
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