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Sir Henry Hallett Dale Sir Henry Hallett Dale
Sir Henry Hallett Dale 1875-1968, English scientist. For his study of acetylcholine as agent in the chemical transmission of nerve impulses he shared with Otto Loewi the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He also investigated the pharmacology of ergot and histamine shock. He was director... Read more
Andrew Fielding Huxley Andrew Fielding Huxley
Andrew Fielding Huxley 1917-, British research scientist, educated at University College, London. He finished his studies at Cambridge after doing operational research for the admiralty during World War II. He was director of studies at Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1952 to 1960, when he became... Read more
Gerty T. Cori Gerty T. Cori
Gerty T. Cori The scientist Gerti T. Cory (1896-1957) made important discoveries in biochemistry, especially carbohydrate metabolism, and in 1947, along with her husband, received the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology. She later studied glycogen storage diseases and the role of enzymes in... Read more
Walter Rudolf Hess Walter Rudolf Hess
Walter Rudolf Hess 1881-1973, Swiss physiologist. For his work on the control of organs by certain areas of the brain he shared with Egas Moniz the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He was (1917-51) professor and director of the physiology institute at the Univ. of Zürich.... Read more
George Richards Minot George Richards Minot
George Richards Minot , 1885-1950, American physician and pathologist, b. Boston, M.D. Harvard, 1912. From 1928 to 1948 he was professor of medicine at Harvard and director of the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, Boston City Hospital. He specialized in diseases of the blood, and for his research on... Read more
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins 1861-1947, English biochemist, educated at Cambridge and the Univ. of London. He was professor of biochemistry at Cambridge (1914-43). Among his contributions were important studies in carbohydrate metabolism and muscular activity, including the discovery of the... Read more
Joseph Erlanger Joseph Erlanger
Joseph Erlanger , 1874-1965, American scientist, b. San Francisco, grad. Univ. of California (B.S., 1895), M.D. Johns Hopkins, 1899. For his contributions to physiology, especially his work on nerve action, he shared with Herbert Spencer Gasser the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He was... Read more
Peter Brian Medawar Peter Brian Medawar
MEDAWAR, PETER BRIAN(b. Rio de Janeiro, 28 February 1915, d. London, 2 October 1987),immunology, transplant biology, medicine.Sir Peter Medawar is best remembered for developing the theory of acquired immunological tolerance, thus laying the foundation for successful organ and tissue... Read more
Joshua Lederberg Joshua Lederberg
Joshua Lederberg The geneticist Joshua Lederberg (born 1925) was a pioneer in the study of bacteria and viruses to determine the chemical and molecular basis of genetics. He shared the 1958 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine with two associates. His work on genetic recombination... Read more
Johannes Fibiger Johannes Fibiger
Johannes Fibiger Johannes Fibiger (1867-1928) was a Danish bacteriologist and pathologist who made important research contributions to the study of diseases such as diphtheria, tuberculosis, and cancer, as well as important advances in clinical research methodology. He received the 1926 Nobel... Read more

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