The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1970

Sir Bernard Katz

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Prize share: 1/3

Ulf von Euler

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Prize share: 1/3

Julius Axelrod

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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 transmittors in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation."

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