biography
| name: |
Euler, Ulf (Svante) von
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pronunciation:
[oyler]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1905–83)
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| biography:
| Physiologist, born in Stockholm, Sweden. He studied at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, and spent his whole career there (1930–71). He found the first prostaglandin in 1935, and in 1970 shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his isolation and identification of noradrenaline (norepinephrine), the neurotransmitter for the sympathetic nervous system. He was a member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine from 1953, and president of the Nobel Foundation (1965–75). |
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