Loewi

American  

[loh-ee, lœ-vee] / ˈloʊ i, ˈlœ vi /

noun

1. Otto 1873–1961, German pharmacologist in the U.S.: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1936.

---

Loewi British  

/ ˈləʊɪ /

noun

1. Otto. 1873–1961, US pharmacologist, born in Germany. He shared a Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1936) with Dale for their work on the chemical transmission of nerve impulses

---

Loewi Scientific  

/ lĕv′ē /

1. German pharmacologist who, with Sir Henry Dale, investigated the chemical transmissions of nerve impulses. For this work they shared the 1936 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.

---

Example Sentences

And unlike Loewi, they did not awaken with the solution in the middle of the night.

From Slate • Dec. 26, 2020

However, when reflecting on his nocturnal discovery, Loewi credited sleep with making the association between his theory from 1903 and an experimental technique he had recently used to answer a different question.

From Slate • Dec. 26, 2020

In 1921, Nobel Prize winner Otto Loewi had a problem.

From Slate • Dec. 26, 2020

Seldom does Dr. Loewi spend more than two years on a subject.

From Time Magazine Archive

Says Thomas Czech, research director for Blunt Ellis & Loewi, a Milwaukee-based brokerage firm: "All of a sudden everybody's afraid not to be buying stock."

From Time Magazine Archive