The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1936
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Sir Henry Hallett Dale
Prize share: 1/2
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Otto Loewi
Prize share: 1/2
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1936 was awarded jointly to Sir Henry Hallett Dale and Otto Loewi "for their discoveries relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses."
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