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Henry Hallett Dale

1875 - 1968

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Sir Henry Hallett Dale (9 June 1875 – 23 July 1968) was an English pharmacologist and physiologist. For his study of acetylcholine as agent in the chemical transmission of nerve pulses (neurotransmission) he shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Otto Loewi. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Hallett Dale is the 67th most popular chemist (up from 84th in 2019), the 310th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 389th in 2019) and the 14th most popular British Chemist.

Henry Hallett Dale is most famous for his work in bacteriology and immunology. He discovered that diphtheria is caused by a bacterium, and he developed a vaccine for it.

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Among chemists, Henry Hallett Dale ranks 67 out of 602. Before him are Francis William Aston, Norman Haworth, John Howard Northrop, Ilya Prigogine, Leopold Ružička, and Wendell Meredith Stanley. After him are Gerty Cori, Vladimir Prelog, Gertrude B. Elion, Dorothy Hodgkin, William Giauque, and Jean-Pierre Sauvage.

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Among people born in 1875, Henry Hallett Dale ranks 18. Before him are Jeanne Calment, Mileva Marić, Gerd von Rundstedt, Marie of Romania, Albert I of Belgium, and Mikhail Kalinin. After him are Jim Corbett, Vesto Slipher, Gilbert N. Lewis, John Buchan, Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. Among people deceased in 1968, Henry Hallett Dale ranks 12. Before him are Marcel Duchamp, John Steinbeck, Otto Hahn, Lev Landau, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, and Max Brod. After him are Konstantin Rokossovsky, Robert F. Kennedy, George Gamow, Trygve Lie, Karl Barth, and Georg von Küchler.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry Hallett Dale ranks 310 out of 8,785. Before him are Peter Higgs (1929), Harold Godwinson (1022), Henry IV of England (1367), Michael York (1942), Thomas Newcomen (1663), and Louise, Princess Royal (1867). After him are Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax (1881), Anne Brontë (1820), William Golding (1911), Thomas Reid (1710), Roger Waters (1943), and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (1901).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Henry Hallett Dale ranks 14. Before him are Arthur Harden (1865), Archer Martin (1910), Rodney Robert Porter (1917), Frederick Soddy (1877), Francis William Aston (1877), and Norman Haworth (1883). After him are Frederick Sanger (1918), Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914), M. Stanley Whittingham (1941), William Crookes (1832), George Porter (1920), and Harry Kroto (1939).

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