Sir Henry Dale

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Sir Henry Dale, 1956.

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Also Known As	Sir Henry Hallett Dale
Born	June 9, 1875 • London • England
Died	July 23, 1968 (aged 93) • Cambridge • England
Awards And Honors	Copley Medal (1937) • Nobel Prize (1936)
Subjects Of Study	acetylcholine • nerve impulse • transmission

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Andrew Fielding Huxley

Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley

British physiologist

Sir Alan Hodgkin

Sir Alan Hodgkin

British biophysicist

Lord Adrian. 1956.

Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian

British electrophysiologist

Sir Bernard Katz

British physiologist

Frederick Gowland Hopkins

Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins

British biochemist

Sir Charles Sherrington.

Sir Charles Scott Sherrington

British physiologist

Otto Loewi

German-American pharmacologist

Nurse, Paul

Paul Nurse

British scientist

Lord Florey.

Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey

Australian pathologist

Sir John Robert Vane

British biochemist

Crick, Francis

Francis Crick

British biophysicist

Peter B. Medawar, 1960.

Sir Peter B. Medawar

British zoologist

A.V. Hill, detail of a pencil drawing by F.W. Schmin, 1923

A.V. Hill

British physiologist and biophysicist

John O'Keefe

John O’Keefe

British-American neuroscientist

Peter J. Ratcliffe

British physician and scientist

Sir James Black

Scottish pharmacologist

Sir Hans Adolf Krebs

Sir Hans Adolf Krebs

German-British biochemist

César Milstein

Argentine immunologist

Martin Evans

Martin Evans

British scientist

Rodney Robert Porter

British biochemist

Quiz

Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.

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