The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1936

Sir Henry Hallett Dale

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Prize share: 1/2

Otto Loewi

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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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