Il più grande scienziato Rom senza dubbio è il Dr August Krogh. Schack August Steenberg Krogh nacque a Grenaa, nello Jutland, in Danimarca, il 15 novembre 1874. Era il figlio di Viggo Krogh, costruttore navale, e Marie, nata Drechmann. Ha menzionato la sua origine Rom durante il suo discorso mentre riceveva il Premio Nobel per la Fisiologia o la Medicina nel 1920.

August Krogh, the greatest Roma scientist and nobel prize winner

The greatest Roma scientist with no doubt is Dr August Krogh. Schack August Steenberg Krogh was born at Grenaa, Jutland, Denmark, on November 15, 1874. He was the son of Viggo Krogh, shipbuilder, and Marie, née Drechmann. He mentioned his Roma origin during his speech10 while receiving the Nobel Price for Physiology or Medicine in 1920.

Krogh was a pioneer in comparative physiology. He wrote his thesis on the respiration through the skin and lungs in frogs: Respiratory Exchange of Animals, 1915. Later Krogh took on studies of water and electrolytehomeostasis of aquatic animals and he published the books: Osmotic Regulation (1939) and Comparative Physiology of Respiratory Mechanisms (1941). He contributed more than 200 research articles in international journals. He was a constructor of scientific instruments of which several had considerable practical importance, e.g. the spirometer and the apparatus for measuring basal metabolic rate.

Krogh was the head of the first laboratory for animal physiology (zoophysiology) at the University of Copenhagen.

Krogh and his wife Marie brought insulin to Denmark shortly after its discovery in 1922 by Nicolae Paulescu. Marie, a doctor who had patients with type 1 diabetes, was herself suffering from type 2 diabetes and was naturally very interested in the disease.] Together with a doctor, Hagedorn, August and Marie Krogh founded NordiskInsulinLaboratorium, where Krogh made decisive contributions to establishing a Danish production of insulin by ethanol extraction of the hormone from thepancreatic glands of pigs.

In the 1930s, Krogh worked with two other Nobel prizewinners, the radiochemist George de Hevesy and the physicist Niels Bohr on the permeability of membranes to heavy water and radioactive isotopes, and together they managed to obtain Denmark’s first cyclotron for experiments on animal and plant physiology, as well as in dental and medical work.

Dr August Krogh died in Copenhagen on September 13, 1949

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