Alphabetical Index Index by Birth Year
Otto Loewi
* 1873 in Frankfurt
+ 1961 in New York
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Otto Loewi was a German-born pharmacologist and psychobiologist
who discovered the role of acetylcholine as an endogenous neurotransmitter.
For his discovery he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1936,
which he shared with Sir Henry Dale.
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