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Loewi

American  
[loh-ee, -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

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Loewi Scientific  
/ lĕvē /
  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.


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