Sir Bernard Katz

Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1970

On the Quantal Mechanism of Neural Transmitter Release

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From Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1963-1970, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1972

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