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Bernard Katz
Sir Bernard Katz, FRS was a German-born British physician and biophysicist, noted for his work on nerve physiology; specifically, for his work on synaptic transmission at the nerve-muscle junction. He shared the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1970 with Julius Axelrod and Ulf von Euler. He was made a Knight Bachelor in 1969.
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science · German-British biophysicist (1911–2003) · physician · neuroscientist · university teacher · physicist · chemist · biochemist · biophysicist · also Bernard Katz, Sir Bernard Katz, Bernhard Katz, Professor Sir Bernard Katz, Katz
Born 26 March 1911 · Died 20 April 2003 · Q4517
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2020· 1 entry
Published “From local explanations to global understanding with explainable AI for trees” in Nature Machine Intelligence — cited 8,833 times.
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2003· 2 entries
Died 2003-04-20.
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“Organized religion: The world's largest pyramid scheme.”
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1990· 1 entry
Awarded Ralph W. Gerard Prize (1990).
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1989· 1 entry
Won Cothenius Medal (1989).
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (1987).
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1970· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1970).
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1967· 2 entries
Won Baly Medal (1967).
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Won Copley Medal (1967).
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1965· 1 entry
Awarded Feldberg Foundation Prize (1965).
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1963· 1 entry
Published “Studies of Illness in the Aged” in JAMA — cited 9,745 times.
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1961· 1 entry
Won Croonian Medal and Lecture (1961).
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1952· 1 entry
And head of the Biophysics Department; he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1952
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1946· 1 entry
Was invited back to UCL as an assistant director by Hill
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1941· 1 entry
And joined the Royal Australian Air Force in 1942
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1938· 1 entry
And won a Carnegie Fellowship to study with John Carew Eccles at the Kanematsu Institute of Sydney Medical School
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1911· 1 entry
Born 1911-03-26.
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