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Otto Loewi was a Jewish-German pharmacologist who made important discoveries about how nerves communicate with each other and with muscles. His work helped establish the chemical basis of nerve signaling, which became fundamental to understanding how the nervous system functions.
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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. For this discovery, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1936, which he shared with Sir Henry Dale, who was a lifelong friend that helped to inspire the neurotransmitter experiment. Loewi met Dale in 1902 when spending some months in Ernest Starling's laboratory at University College, London.
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1873 births1961 deaths20th-century Jewish medical doctorsAcademics of University College LondonAcademic staff of the University of StrasbourgAmerican neuroscientistsAustrian Nobel laureatesEmigrants from Austria after the Anschluss to the United StatesForeign members of the Royal SocietyGerman emigrants to Austria-HungaryGerman expatriates in Austria