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Sir Bernard Katz
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Born March 26, 1911 • Leipzig • Germany
Died April 20, 2003 (aged 92) • London • England • (Died on this day)
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1970) • Copley Medal (1967)
Subjects Of Study acetylcholine • nerve impulse
Sir Alan Hodgkin
Sir Alan Hodgkin
British biophysicist
Sir Henry Dale, 1956.
Sir Henry Dale
British physiologist
Otto Loewi
German-American pharmacologist
Crick, Francis
Francis Crick
British biophysicist
A.V. Hill, detail of a pencil drawing by F.W. Schmin, 1923
A.V. Hill
British physiologist and biophysicist
Andrew Fielding Huxley
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley
British physiologist
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
German-British biochemist
Watson, James
James Watson
American geneticist and biophysicist
Neher, Erwin
Erwin Neher
German physicist
Maurice Wilkins with a model of a DNA molecule, 1962.
Maurice Wilkins
British biophysicist
Lord Adrian. 1956.
Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian
British electrophysiologist
Peter B. Medawar, 1960.
Sir Peter B. Medawar
British zoologist
Sir Charles Sherrington.
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
British physiologist
César Milstein
Argentine immunologist
Nurse, Paul
Paul Nurse
British scientist
Martin Evans
Martin Evans
British scientist
Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
British biochemist
Lord Florey.
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey
Australian pathologist
Rodney Robert Porter
British biochemist
Chain
Sir Ernst Boris Chain
British biochemist

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