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Julius Axelrod
Julius Axelrod was an American biochemist. He won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970 along with Bernard Katz and Ulf von Euler. The Nobel Committee honored him for his work on the release and reuptake of catecholamine neurotransmitters, a class of chemicals in the brain that include epinephrine, norepinephrine, and, as was later discovered, dopamine. Axelrod also made maj…
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science · American biochemist (1912–2004) · chemist · neuroscientist · pharmacologist · scientist · biochemist · also Julius Axelrod, J. Axelrod, J Axelrod, Axelrod
Born 30 May 1912 · Died 29 December 2004 · Q110106
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Published “LSST: From Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products” in The Astrophysical Journal — cited 3,524 times.
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2010· 1 entry
Published “Human Papillomavirus and Survival of Patients with Oropharyngeal Cancer” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 5,830 times.
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2004· 2 entries
Was survived by two sons, Paul and Alfred, and three grandchildren
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Died 2004-12-29.
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1992· 2 entries
Awarded Ralph W. Gerard Prize (1992).
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His wife of 53 years, Sally Taub Axelrod, died in 1992.
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience Research (1989).
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1982· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate from University of Paris-XI (1982).
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1981· 1 entry
Published “The Evolution of Cooperation” in Science — cited 7,040 times.
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1979).
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1978· 1 entry
Awarded Schmiedeberg Badge (1978).
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1970· 4 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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Along with Bernard Katz and Ulf von Euler
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Axelrod used his visibility to advocate several science policy issues
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1967· 2 entries
Awarded Canada Gairdner International Award (1967).
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And the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970
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1958· 1 entry
Axelrod also discovered and characterized the enzyme catechol-O-methyl transferase, which is involved in the breakdown of catecholamines
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1957· 1 entry
Axelrod showed that catecholamine neurotransmitters do not merely stop working after they are released into the synapse
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1954· 1 entry
To attend George Washington University Medical School
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1949· 1 entry
Axelrod began work at the National Heart Institute, forerunner of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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1946· 1 entry
Axelrod took a position working under Bernard Brodie at Goldwater Memorial Hospital
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1935· 1 entry
Got a job with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene testing vitamin supplements added to food
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1912· 1 entry
Born 1912-05-30.
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