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Otto Loewi

1873 - 1961

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Otto Loewi (German: [ˈɔtoː ˈløːvi] ; 3 June 1873 – 25 December 1961) was a German-born pharmacologist and psychobiologist who discovered the role of acetylcholine as an endogenous neurotransmitter. For this discovery, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1936, which he shared with Sir Henry Dale, who was a lifelong friend that helped to inspire the neurotransmitter experiment. Loewi met Dale in 1902 when spending some months in Ernest Starling's laboratory at University College, London. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Otto Loewi is the 70th most popular physician (down from 67th in 2019), the 431st most popular biography from Germany (up from 490th in 2019) and the 10th most popular German Physician.

Otto Loewi is most famous for his work on the chemical transmission of nerve impulses. In 1921, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the chemical transmission of nerve impulses.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Otto Loewi ranks 70 out of 726. Before him are Francesco Redi, António Egas Moniz, René Laennec, Franz Mesmer, Robert Bellarmine, and André Frédéric Cournand. After him are Hilary of Poitiers, William P. Murphy, Christiaan Barnard, Ambroise Paré, Johannes Fibiger, and Selman Waksman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Otto Loewi ranks 14. Before him are Konstantin von Neurath, Colette, Jules Rimet, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, Alexis Carrel, and Henri Barbusse. After him are Luigi Lucheni, Alfred Jarry, Karl Schwarzschild, Spyridon Louis, Antonie Pannekoek, and Alberto Santos-Dumont. Among people deceased in 1961, Otto Loewi ranks 18. Before him are Percy Williams Bridgman, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Edith Wilson, Mohammed V of Morocco, Maria of Yugoslavia, and Frantz Fanon. After him are Rafael Trujillo, Kurt Meyer, Adnan Menderes, Dashiell Hammett, Sergio Osmeña, and Luigi Einaudi.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Otto Loewi ranks 431 out of 7,253. Before him are Gerd Binnig (1947), Otto Dix (1891), Levi Strauss (1829), Manfred Eigen (1927), Sepp Maier (1944), and Ernst Abbe (1840). After him are Otto Lilienthal (1848), Leo von Caprivi (1831), Pina Bausch (1940), Hans Krebs (1898), Maria Anna of Bavaria (1805), and Ernst Bloch (1885).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Otto Loewi ranks 10. Before him are Alois Alzheimer (1864), Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883), Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884), Emil Kraepelin (1856), Samuel Hahnemann (1755), and Gerhard Domagk (1895). After him are Theodor Morell (1886), Werner Forssmann (1904), Johannes Peter Müller (1801), Hinrich Lichtenstein (1780), Johann Joachim Becher (1635), and Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840).

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