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Julius Axelrod was a male chemist, neuroscientist, pharmacologist, and scientist born in New York City on May 30, 1912. He held citizenship in the United States and Poland. Axelrod was educated at the City College of New York and New York University. He worked as an employee of the United States National Institutes of Health and had interests in biochemistry. He spoke English and Polish.
He received the Canada Gairdner International Award, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and the Ralph W. Gerard Prize. Axelrod was a member of the Royal Society, the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences. He was also recognized in the Royal Society collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Medicine collection, and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
Axelrod died in Bethesda on December 29, 2004. He resided in Bethesda and New York City. His field of work included biochemistry, pharmacology, neuroscience, and neurochemistry. He was an atheist. One of his top works was the Harvey Lectures.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1970
“for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation”
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Julius
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Poland
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Place of death
- Bethesda
- Occupation
- biochemist
- Languages spoken
- Polish
- Religion
- atheism
- Field of work
- neurochemistry
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- Julius Axelrod 3.jpg
- Residence
- New York City
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- American Philosophical Society
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- Julius Axelrod
- date of birth
- 1912-05-30
- date of death
- 2004-12-29
- name in native language
- Julius Axelrod
- interested in
- biochemistry
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Encyclopedic overview
Julius Axelrod (May 30, 1912 – December 29, 2004) was an American biochemist. He won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970 along with Bernard Katz and Ulf von Euler. The Nobel Committee honored him for his work on the release and reuptake of catecholamine neurotransmitters, a class of chemicals in the brain that include epinephrine, norepinephrine, and, as was later discovered, dopamine. Axelrod also made major contributions to the understanding of the pineal gland and how it is regulated during the sleep-wake cycle.
Education and early life
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