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Bernard Katz

1911 - 2003

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Sir Bernard Katz, FRS (German pronunciation: [ˈbɛʁnaʁt kat͡s] ; 26 March 1911 – 20 April 2003) was a German-born British physician and biophysicist, noted for his work on nerve physiology; specifically, for his work on synaptic transmission at the nerve-muscle junction. He shared the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1970 with Julius Axelrod and Ulf von Euler. He was made a Knight Bachelor in 1969. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bernard Katz is the 153rd most popular biologist (down from 78th in 2019), the 923rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 690th in 2019) and the 18th most popular German Biologist.

Bernard Katz is most famous for his discovery of the enzyme hexokinase. This enzyme is responsible for the first step in glucose metabolism, which is catalysis of glucose to form glucose-6-phosphate.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Bernard Katz ranks 153 out of 1,097. Before him are Gabriele Falloppio, Ibn al-Baitar, Johan Christian Fabricius, Félix d'Herelle, Howard Martin Temin, and Joshua Lederberg. After him are Thomas Huckle Weller, Bernard Germain de Lacépède, Martin Chalfie, Jakob von Uexküll, Susumu Tonegawa, and Nettie Stevens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Bernard Katz ranks 51. Before him are Joseph Barbera, John Archibald Wheeler, L. Ron Hubbard, Ginger Rogers, Samuel Reshevsky, and Akira Yoshizawa. After him are Ernesto Sabato, Herta Oberheuser, J. L. Austin, Gustav Wagner, Bruno Kreisky, and Cantinflas. Among people deceased in 2003, Bernard Katz ranks 39. Before him are Lee Yoo-hyung, Gertrude Ederle, Franco Modigliani, Richard Crenna, Compay Segundo, and Isser Harel. After him are Helmut Rahn, Alberto Sordi, Celia Cruz, Horst Buchholz, Leslie Cheung, and Waichiro Omura.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Bernard Katz ranks 923 out of 7,253. Before him are Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters (1813), Kurt Eisner (1867), Karlheinz Böhm (1928), Joseph Pilates (1883), Emanuel Schikaneder (1751), and Eugen Dühring (1833). After him are Marie d'Agoult (1805), Hans Sachs (1494), Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1680), Jochen Mass (1946), Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust (1809), and Andreas Brehme (1960).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Bernard Katz ranks 18. Before him are Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1942), Erwin Neher (1944), Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795), Georges J. F. Köhler (1946), Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim (1771), and Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748). After him are Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709), Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (1739), Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (1775), Julius Richard Petri (1852), Walther Flemming (1843), and Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765).

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