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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.
Mar 22, 2024 · acetylcholine. 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 ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
He named the inhibitory factor ‘vagusstoff’, which is known today as acetylcholine. 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:
- Alli N McCoy, Siang Yong Tan
- 10.11622/smedj.2014002
- 2014
- Singapore Med J. 2014 Jan; 55(1): 3-4.
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May 18, 2018 · The German-American pharmacologist and physiologist Otto Loewi (1873-1961) shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries relating to the chemical transmission of nerve impulses.
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.
6 days ago · Quick Reference. (1873–1961) German-born US physiologist who showed that the passage of a nerve impulse is associated with the release of a chemical at the nerve endings. This chemical, acetylcholine, was later isolated by Dale, and Loewi and Dale shared the 1936 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
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.
