List of Famous people with last name Loewi

Otto Loewi

First Name Otto
Last Name Loewi
Born on June 3, 1873
Died on December 25, 1961 (aged 88)
Born in Germany, Hesse

Otto Loewi was a German-born pharmacologist and psychobiologist who discovered the role of acetylcholine as an endogenous neurotransmitter. For his 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. Loewi met Dale in 1902 when spending some months in Ernest Starling's laboratory at University College, London.

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