Julius Axelrod

Julius Axelrod

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1970

National Institutes of Health

“for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation”

Julius Axelrod was an American biochemist and pharmacologist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970 for discoveries concerning the humoral transmitters in nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation. He was affiliated with the National Institutes of Health.

Field
Medicine · Pharmacy and Pharmacology
Lifespan
1912–2004