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Otto Loewi, German-American pharmacologist and psychobiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1961)
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Otto Loewi
German pharmacologist (1873–1961)
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…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
One of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's 1895 will, are…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)