Otto Loewi (German: [ˈɔtoː ˈløːvi] ; 3 June 1873 – 25 December 1961) was a German-born pharmacologist and psychobiologist who discovered the role of acetylcholine...

Loewi is a surname, and may refer to: Fiona Loewi (born 1975), Canadian actress Otto Loewi (1873–1961), German-born pharmacologist and psychobiologist...

Before Otto Loewi's work, there was debate on whether neurotransmission was primarily chemical or electrical. On a night before Easter Sunday, Loewi had...

Hans Fischer, Karl Landsteiner, Erwin Schrödinger, Victor Franz Hess, Otto Loewi, Konrad Lorenz and Friedrich Hayek. The University of Vienna was the cradle...

causes a reduction in the heart rate. Discovered in 1921 by physiologist Otto Loewi, vagusstoff was the first confirmation of chemical synaptic transmission...

extract reversed this condition. Neurohormones were first identified by Otto Loewi in 1921. He incubated a frog's heart (innervated with its vagus nerve...

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(neurotransmission) he shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Otto Loewi. Henry Hallett Dale was born in Islington, London, to Charles James Dale...

while he was developing his statistical theory of heat. Nobel laureate Otto Loewi taught at the university from 1909 until 1938 and Victor Franz Hess (Nobel...

self-treatment. In the 1920s, Otto Loewi determined the biomechanical mechanism for the effects of physostigmine on the body. Loewi was studying how actions...

block at the atrioventricular node. At this location, neuroscientist Otto Loewi first demonstrated that nerves secrete substances called neurotransmitters...

Otto Loewi confirmed that neurons can communicate by releasing chemicals. Through a series of experiments involving the vagus nerves of frogs, Loewi was...

nanogram. The concept of neurotransmitters was unknown until 1921, when Otto Loewi noted that the vagus nerve secreted a substance that inhibited the heart...

British supercentenarian and oldest person in the world (d. 1987) June 3 – Otto Loewi, German-born pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology...

and the all-or-nothing response of nerve fibers. Sir Henry Dale and Otto Loewi (1936) for the discovery of neurotransmitters and identification of acetylcholine...

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studied electrical engineering at the Polytechnic in 1875. Nobel laureate Otto Loewi taught at the University of Graz from 1909 until 1938. Ivo Andrić, the...

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in the brain was not known until around 1930 (Henry Hallett Dale and Otto Loewi). We began to understand the basic electrical phenomenon that neurons...

of the Austrian constitution Paul Felix Lazarsfeld, social scientist Otto Loewi, pharmacologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born in Germany...

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Jacques Loeb, physiologist Otto Loewi, pharmacologist, Nobel Prize (1936) Elisabeth Mann, biologist (Jewish mother) Otto Meyerhof, biochemist, Nobel...

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Many Jews studied science and went to New York City, examples such as Otto Loewi, who moved to the United States in 1940, where he joined the faculty of...

World Scientific Publishing Co. 1992. Retrieved September 25, 2007. "Otto Loewi". Nobel Lectures. Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Company. 1965. Retrieved...

Bárány (1914), Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1927), Karl Landsteiner (1930), and Otto Loewi (1936)], were the result of work undertaken at this time. The excellent...

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(1886–1943), physician, serologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Otto Loewi (1873–1961), pharmacologist (born in Germany, but spent 40 years of his...

precedent was followed for the 1922 prize awarded to Archibald Hill and Otto Fritz Meyerhof in 1923, the 1926 prize awarded to Johannes Fibiger in 1927...

contributions made using this technique include: The 1921 discovery by Otto Loewi of Vagusstoff using frog hearts resulted in the identification of acetylcholine...