Julius Axelrod
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1912 – 2004
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Who was Julius Axelrod?
Julius Axelrod 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.
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- Born
- May 30, 1912
New York City - Also known as
- Аксельрод, Джулиус
- 朱利叶斯·阿克塞尔罗德
- Religion
- Atheism
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- George Washington University
- New York University
- City College of New York
- George Washington University Medical School
- Lived in
- New York City
- Bethesda
- Died
- Dec 29, 2004
Bethesda
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on July 23, 2013
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