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    Otto Loewi (German: [ˈɔtoː ˈløːvi] ; 3 June 1873 – 25 December 1961) was a German-born pharmacologist and psychobiologist who discovered the role of acetylcholine...
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  • Loewi is a surname, and may refer to: Fiona Loewi (born 1975), Canadian actress Otto Loewi (1873–1961), German-born pharmacologist and psychobiologist...
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  • Before Otto Loewi's work, there was debate on whether neurotransmission was primarily chemical or electrical. On a night before Easter Sunday, Loewi had...
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    Hans Fischer, Karl Landsteiner, Erwin Schrödinger, Victor Franz Hess, Otto Loewi, Konrad Lorenz and Friedrich Hayek. The University of Vienna was the cradle...
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    causes a reduction in the heart rate. Discovered in 1921 by physiologist Otto Loewi, vagusstoff was the first confirmation of chemical synaptic transmission...
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    (neurotransmission) he shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Otto Loewi. Henry Hallett Dale was born in Islington, London, to Charles James Dale...
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    block at the atrioventricular node. At this location, neuroscientist Otto Loewi first demonstrated that nerves secrete substances called neurotransmitters...
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  • British supercentenarian and oldest person in the world (b. 1873) June 3 – Otto Loewi, German-born pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology...
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    extract reversed this condition. Neurohormones were first identified by Otto Loewi in 1921. He incubated a frog's heart (innervated with its vagus nerve...
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    Karplus Max von Laue Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran Jean-Marie Lehn Otto Loewi Otto Fritz Meyerhof Louis Néel Wilhelm Röntgen Jean-Pierre Sauvage Albert...
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