Otto Loewi was a German-born pharmacologist and psychobiologist, born in Frankfurt in 1873, who later held Austrian citizenship from 1905 and American citizenship from 1946. He is renowned for discovering the role of acetylcholine as a chemical neurotransmitter, demonstrated in a famous 1921 experiment in which he transferred fluid from a stimulated frog heart to a second frog heart and showed that a chemical substance, rather than an electrical signal, had carried the nerve impulse effect between them. He shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Henry Dale for this work on the chemical transmission of nerve impulses.
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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account Death DateSourced to the subject's own account Death YearSourced to the subject's own account FieldSourced to the subject's own accountPharmacology and psychobiology 1 Death PlaceSourced to the subject's own accountNew York City, United States 1 NationalitySourced to the subject's own accountGerman-born Austrian-American 1 Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own accountDiscovery of acetylcholine as a chemical neurotransmitter (1921 frog-heart experiment) 1 BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own accountFrankfurt, German Empire 1 Connections
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Henry Dale, Scientists Lifelong friends since meeting in Ernest Starling's laboratory in 1902; shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for chemical neurotransmission.
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birth_place = [[Frankfurt]], [[German Empire]]
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field = [[Pharmacology]], [[psychobiology]]
REST summary extract, lead sentence
Otto Loewi was a German-born pharmacologist and psychobiologist who discovered the role of acetylcholine as an endogenous neurotransmitter.
Associated With: Henry Dale, REST summary extract, second sentence
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 lifelong friend that helped to inspire the neurotransmitter experiment.
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