Danish physiologist born in Grenaa, Jylland, professor at the University of Copenhagen and researcher in breathing and blood movement, who won the Prize Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1920) for discovering the regulation of capillaries motor mechanism, that is, the mechanism that regulates movement in capillaries. Son of shipbuilder Viggo Krogh and Marie, née Drechmann, since childhood he showed a taste for the study of natural sciences.
Encouraged by your teacher and friend D. Sc. William Sörensen, devoted himself to physiology. He entered the University of Copenhagen (1893), where he studied medicine and then zoology. He began work (1897) at the Medical Physiology Laboratory at the University of Copenhagen with the famous Professor Christian Bohr. He became Associate Professor of Zoophysiology (1908) at the University of Copenhagen, and remained there until his retirement (1945). He died in Copenhagen.
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