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Sir Henry Hallett Dale

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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 of the National Institute for Medical Research (1928-42), professor of chemistry and director of the Davy-Faraday Laboratory at the Royal Institution (1942-46), and president of the Royal Society (1940-45) and of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1947). In 1932 he was knighted.... Read more
Sir Henry Hallett Dale
...and neurophysiologist Sir Henry Hallett Dale (1875-1968) shared...of nerve impulses. Henry Dale, son of C. J...J. N. Langley, and (Sir) F. Gowland Hopkins...Frankfurt am Main, Dale was invited by (Sir) Henry S. Wellcome in 1904... Read more
Severo Ochoa
...Institute for Medical Research. In England Ochoa met Sir Henry Hallett Dale, who would later win the 1936 Nobel in medicine for...the following year he started working directly under Dale, investigating how the adrenal glands affected the chemistry... Read more

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