Sir Bernard Katz

Sir Bernard Katz

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1970

University College London

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

Sir Bernard Katz was a German-born British biophysicist and neurophysiologist. He shared the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries concerning the humoral transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation.

Field
Biology · Neuroscience
Lifespan
1911–2003