Science · 1875–1968

Henry Hallett Dale

Nobel Prize-winning scientist who identified chemical nerve transmission

Did you know?During his long career, he served as the President of the Royal Society and chaired the Wellcome Trust for over two decades.

Sir Henry Hallett Dale (9 June 1875 – 23 July 1968) was an English pharmacologist and physiologist. For his study of acetylcholine as agent in the chemical transmission of nerve pulses (neurotransmission) he shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Otto Loewi.

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