Awards & Winners

Otto Loewi

Date of Birth 03-June-1873
Place of Birth Frankfurt
(Germany, Hesse, West Germany)
Nationality United States of America, Germany, Austria
Profession Scientist
Otto Loewi was a German-born pharmacologist whose discovery of acetylcholine helped enhance medical therapy. The discovery earned for him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1936 which he shared with Sir Henry Dale, whom he met in 1902 when spending some months in Ernest Starling's laboratory at University College, London. He has been referred to as the "Father of Neuroscience."

Awards by Otto Loewi

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1936


Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(for their discoveries relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses.)