The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1936
Awarded on: 1936-10-29
"for their discoveries relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses"
Affiliations:
- Graz University – Graz, Austria
Otto Loewi
Born: 1873-06-03 in Frankfurt-on-the-Main, Germany
Gender: male
Field: German pharmacologist (1873–1961)
Biography
Otto Loewi was a German-born pharmacologist and psychobiologist who discovered the role of acetylcholine as an endogenous neurotransmitter. For this discovery, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1936, which he shared with Sir Henry Dale, who was a lifelong friend that helped to inspire the neurotransmitter experiment. Loewi met Dale in 1902 when spending some months in Ernest Starling's laboratory at University College, London.