Joseph Erlanger House National Historic Landmark

From 1917 until his death, 5127 Waterman Blvd. was the home of Joseph Erlanger (1876-1965), graduate of the Johns Hopkins Medical School and one of the leading American physiologists of the first quarter of the 20th century. He shared the 1944 Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology for his discovery of the electrical nature of the human nervous system.