Julius Axelrod - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1970
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Julius Axelrod

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1970
for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation
Together with: Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler
Citizenship
United StatesUnited StatesPolandPoland
Languages
English, Polish
date of birth
5/30/1912
place of birth
New York City
date of death
12/29/2004
place of death
Bethesda
Lived
92 years
occupation
  • pharmacologist
  • biochemist
  • chemist
  • neuroscientist
  • scientist
field of work
  • pharmacology
  • neuroscience
  • biochemistry
  • neurochemistry
educated at
  • City College of New York
  • New York University
  • George Washington University Medical School
  • Seward Park High School
employer
  • United States National Institutes of Health
    • start time: 1949
    • end time: 1984
member of
  • Royal Society of London
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1995
  • German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
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