1936 Nobel Prize Award ceremony, 10 December 1936. From left: Medicine laureates Otto Loewi and Sir Henry Dale, chemistry laureate Peter Debye, physics laureates Carl David Anderson and Victor F. Hess.

1936 Nobel Prize Award ceremony, 10 December 1936. From left: Medicine laureates Otto Loewi and Sir Henry Dale, chemistry laureate Peter Debye, physics laureates Carl David Anderson and Victor F. Hess. Sir Henry Dale and Professor Otto Loewi outside the Grand Hotel in Stockholm at the time of the Nobel Week, December 1936

1936 Nobel Prize Award ceremony, 10 December 1936. From left: Medicine laureates Otto Loewi and Sir Henry Dale, chemistry laureate Peter Debye, physics laureates Carl David Anderson and Victor F. Hess.

1936 Nobel Prize Award ceremony, 10 December 1936. From left: Medicine laureates Otto Loewi and Sir Henry Dale, chemistry laureate Peter Debye, physics laureates Carl David Anderson and Victor F. Hess. Sir Henry Dale and Professor Otto Loewi outside the Grand Hotel in Stockholm at the time of the Nobel Week, December 1936

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Carlos Saavedra Lamas was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his accomplishments as the architect of the South American Anti-War Pact and negotiator between Paraguay and Bolivia. Carlos Saavedra Lamas Full name: Carlos Saavedra LamasBorn: 1 November 1878, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaDied: 5 May 1959, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaDate awarded: 24 November 1936 Latin America’s first laureate…

For the nervous system to receive information from the body and send out instructions, it must rely on finding a way of passing its electrical impulses from one nerve cell to another. By revealing the mode through which impulses communicate their signal across the miniscule gaps, or synapses, that separate nerve cells from each other…

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Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1936 The Chemical Transmission of Nerve Action Natural or artificial stimulation of nerves gives rise to a process of progressive excitation in them, leading to a response in the effector organ of the nerves concerned. Up until the year 1921 it was not known how the stimulation of a nerve influenced…