Awards & Winners

Bernard Katz

Date of Birth 26-March-1911
Place of Birth Leipzig
(Germany, Saxony, Leipzig)
Nationality Germany, United Kingdom
Profession Scientist
Sir Bernard Katz, FRS was a German-born biophysicist, noted for his work on nerve biochemistry. He shared the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1970 with Julius Axelrod and Ulf von Euler. He was knighted in 1970.

Awards by Bernard Katz

Check all the awards nominated and won by Bernard Katz.

1970


Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmittors in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation)

1967


Copley Medal
(In recognition of his distinguished contributions to knowledge of the fundamental processes involved in transmission across the neuromuscular junction.)