Awards & Winners

Ulf von Euler

Date of Birth 07-February-1905
Place of Birth Stockholm
(Sweden, Stockholm County, Stockholm Municipality)
Nationality Sweden
Also know as Ulf Svante von Euler
Profession Pharmacologist, Physiologist
Ulf Svante von Euler ForMemRS was a Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970 for his work on neurotransmitters.

Awards by Ulf von Euler

Check all the awards nominated and won by Ulf von Euler.

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)

1961


Gairdner Foundation International Award
(In recognition of his contributions to the knowledge of the substances released at the nerve endings of the sympathetic nervous system and especially for his recognition that noradrenaline was the most important substance and that it was present in significant amount in all body organs (including the heart) that have a sympathetic nerve supply. By these basic and important discoveries he has opened up new vistas of cardiovascular research which both he and others continue to study and continue to add to our knowledge of cardiovascular phenomena in health and disease.)