Loewi

[ loh-ee; German lœ-vee ]

noun
  1. Ot·to [ot-oh; German awt-oh], /ˈɒt oʊ; German ˈɔt oʊ/, 1873–1961, German pharmacologist in the U.S.: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1936.

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British Dictionary definitions for Loewi

Loewi

/ (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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Scientific definitions for Loewi

Loewi

[ 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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