Awards

NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS FOR MEDICINE
OR PHYSIOLOGY

1970

Julius Axelrod (United States), Ulf von Euler (Sweden), and Bernard Katz (Great Britain, born in Germany) for their discoveries of humoral transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release, and inactivation.

1971

Earl W. Sutherland, Jr., (United States), for his discoveries concerning the mechanisms or actions of hormones.

1972

Gerald M. Edelman (United States) and Rodney R. Porter (Great Britain) for their work in immunology on the chemical structure of antibodies.

1973

Karl von Frisch (Austria), Konrad Lorenz (Austria), and Niko Tinbergen (Great Britain, born in the Netherlands) for their discoveries of the organization and elicitation of individual and social behavioral patterns in animals, including those with genetic...

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