Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1970
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Sir Bernard Katz
Prize share: 1/3
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Ulf von Euler
Prize share: 1/3
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Julius Axelrod
Prize share: 1/3
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1970 was awarded jointly to Sir Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler and Julius Axelrod "for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation"
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