Alphabetical Index Index by Year of Birth Nobel Prize laureates
Otto Loewi
1936 Physiology or Medicine
* 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.
2018 J. Giesen