biography
pronunciation:
[loevee]
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| lived:
| (1873–1961)
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| biography:
| Pharmacologist, born in Frankfurt, WC Germany. He studied at Strasbourg and Munich, and was professor of pharmacology at Graz (1909–38). Forced to leave Nazi Germany in 1938, he became research professor at New York University College of Medicine from 1940. In 1936 he shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work on nerve impulses and their chemical transmission. |
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