Otto Loewi
Otto Loewi
Otto Loewi was a German-born pharmacologist and psychobiologist whose discovery of acetylcholine helped enhance medical therapy. The discovery earned for him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1936 which he shared with Sir Henry Dale, whom he met in 1902 when spending some months in Ernest Starling's laboratory at University College, London...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth3 June 1873
CountryGermany
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