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Ulf von Euler
Ulf Svante von Euler was a Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970 for his work on neurotransmitters.
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Born 7 February 1905 · Died 9 March 1983 · Q237142
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1983· 1 entry
Died 1983-03-09.
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1981· 1 entry
Von Euler became a founding member of the World Cultural Council
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1973· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1973).
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1971· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense (1971).
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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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A member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1972, and a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1973
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Was distinguished with the Nobel Prize for his work, jointly with Sir Bernard Katz and Julius Axelrod
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1968· 1 entry
Awarded Schmiedeberg Badge (1968).
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1962· 1 entry
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Dijon (1962).
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1961· 1 entry
Awarded Canada Gairdner International Award (1961).
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1958· 1 entry
Von Euler married countess Dagmar Cronstedt, a radio broadcaster who had during the Second World War worked at Radio Königsberg, broadcasting German propaganda to neutral Sweden
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1954· 1 entry
“The Role of Mathematics in the Sciences and in Society”
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1953· 1 entry
Won Carl-Ludwig Honorary Medal (1953).
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1939· 1 entry
Von Euler was appointed full professor of physiology at the Karolinska Institute, where he remained until 1971
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1930· 1 entry
And was appointed as assistant professor in pharmacology in the same year, with the support of G
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1929· 1 entry
And his maternal grandfather was Per Teodor Cleve, Professor of Chemistry at the Uppsala University, and the discoverer of the chemical elements thulium and holmium
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1905· 1 entry
Born 1905-02-07.
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