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25 December - Otto Loewi death anniversary


 

Otto Loewi an Austrian pharmacologist and Nobel laureate, was born on 03 June 1873, in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, and he passed away on 25 December 1961 in New York City, USA.

Otto Loewi is renowned for his groundbreaking work on the chemical transmission of nerve impulses. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1936 with Sir Henry Dale for their discoveries relating to the transmission of nerve impulses. Loewi's most notable experiment, known as the "Vagusstoff" experiment, provided crucial evidence for the chemical nature of synaptic transmission.

 

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