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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 as an endogenous neurotransmitter.
Loewi was a dreamer from the first. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, into a Jewish family of wealthy wine merchants, he received a classical education in Latin and Greek, and dreamed of attending graduate school to major in art history.
- Alli N McCoy, Siang Yong Tan
- 10.11622/smedj.2014002
- 2014
- Singapore Med J. 2014 Jan; 55(1): 3-4.
Practicing neurologists should remember Otto Loewi when they attend to the chemistry of their patients' synapses. The story of his Nobel dream is worth telling to our patients. His persecution by the Nazis tells us that the laboratory is not a shelter from the political world around us.
May 27, 2021 · The paper reported an ingenious, yet straightforward experiment made by Professor Otto Loewi in 1920 and published in 1921, which constitutes the first clear-cut proof for the chemical nature of transmission of the nerve impulse from nerve to muscle.
- Ricardo Borges, Antonio G. García
- 2021
Dec 25, 2015 · On December 25, 1961, Otto Loewi, the Jewish, German-born medical scientist who imagined an experiment in a dream, performed it when he awoke - and won a Nobel Prize for his findings, died, at the age of 88.
- David B. Green
- dbgiht@gmail.com
Otto Loewi (1873–1961): Dreamer and Nobel laureate Alli N McCoy1, MD, PhD, Siang Yong Tan2, MD, JD ronically, Otto Loewi is better known for the way in barely passed the end-of-year examination, requiring a year which he came upon the idea that won him the Nobel of remediation before he was able to complete his medical Prize than for the ...
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Jan 23, 2014 · Henry Dale (1875-1968) and Otto Loewi (1873-1961 have identified that synaptic trans- mission at nerve terminals act via potential chemical mes- sengers known as neurotransmitters (Tansey, 2006...
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