Awards & Winners

Julius Axelrod

Date of Birth 30-May-1912
Place of Birth New York City
(New York, United States of America, Area code 917)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Scientist
Julius Axelrod was an American biochemist. He won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970 along with Bernard Katz and Ulf von Euler. The Nobel Committee honored him for his work on the release and reuptake of catecholamine neurotransmitters, a class of chemicals in the brain that include epinephrine, norepinephrine, and, as was later discovered, dopamine. Axelrod also made major contributions to the understanding of the pineal gland and how it is regulated during the sleep-wake cycle.

Awards by Julius Axelrod

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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


Gairdner Foundation International Award
(In recognition of their wide-ranging and fundamental discoveries in relation to the chemistry, biosynthesis, metabolism and pharmacology of biogenic amines, especially the catecholamines. This work has had a major influence in the fields of hypertension and psychopharmacology.)