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Otto Loewi (Wikipedia)

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Wikipedia's biography of Otto Loewi, covering the 1921 frog-heart experiment and the 1936 Nobel Prize shared with Henry Dale. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Publisher
Wikipedia
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loewi
Source Type
reference
Reliability Tier
3
Sources
Otto Loewi (Wikipedia)
WikipediaREST summary extract, lead sentence
Quote, REST summary extract, lead sentence
Otto Loewi was a German-born pharmacologist and psychobiologist who discovered the role of acetylcholine as an endogenous neurotransmitter.
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Claims Backed By This Source (30 claims)

This source backs 30 claims across the atlas. As facts: 17 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds, 1 connected. Plus 10 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Scientists, 26 claims: 13 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 connected, 10 general references.
  • Sources, 4 claims: 4 well-attested.

Well-attested

17

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Holds

2

Scientists

Connected

1

Scientists

General References

10

Scientists

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