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Loewi's dream thus led to the discovery that the primary language of nerve cell communication is chemical, not electrical, and won its dreamer the Nobel Prize in Medicine. Go to: FROM DOCTOR TO PHARMACOLOGIST. Loewi was a dreamer from the first. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, into a Jewish family of wealthy wine merchants, he received a classical ...
- Alli N McCoy, Siang Yong Tan
- 10.11622/smedj.2014002
- 2014
- Singapore Med J. 2014 Jan; 55(1): 3-4.
Dec 25, 2012 · Loewi also helped identify the critical role of amino acids in the generation of proteins. “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.
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Mar 22, 2024 · nerve impulse. transmission. Otto Loewi (born June 3, 1873, Frankfurt am Main, Ger.—died Dec. 25, 1961, New York, N.Y., U.S.) was a German-born American physician and pharmacologist who, with Sir Henry Dale, received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1936 for their discoveries relating to the chemical transmission of nerve impulses.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Oct 1, 2018 · What was Otto Loewi’s major contribution to neuroscience? Answer: Otto Loewi conducted experiments on frog hearts that demonstrated that a chemical was released by nerves that can influence heart rate. Otto Loewi (1873-1961) was a German pharmacologist. He is best known for his characterization of acetylcholine as the chemical substance that ...
Otto Loewi, the son of a wine merchant, was born in Frankfurt-am-Main. As a young man he wished to study art history but, persuaded by his parents, he studied medicine at the Universities of Strasbourg and Munich. Loewi held professorships in physiology and pharmacology at Vienna and Graz Universities (1909–1938). Before graduation he conducted pharmacological research into the effects of ...
- L F Haas
- 2003
May 27, 2021 · One hundred years ago, a 4-page paper published in the Pflüger’s Archiv fűr die Gesamte Physiologie des Menschen und der Tiere dramatically changed our view on synaptic transmission. 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 ...
- Ricardo Borges, Antonio G. García
- 2021
Oct 21, 2022 · Born on 3 June 1873 in Frankfurt am Main, Otto was the only son of Jacob Loewi (1835–1903), a wine merchant, and his second wife, Anna Loewi (née Willstätter, 1848–1904) [ 1 ]. At the Goethe Gymnasium, he acquired a broad classical education, including 9 years of Latin and 6 years of Greek.
