Julius Axelrod

Prix

1. 1967

   Prix international Canada Gairdner

   Biologie

   In recognition of his wide-ranging and fundamental discoveries in relation to the chemistry, biosynthesis, metabolism and pharmacology of biogenic amines, especially the catecholamines.This work has had a major influence in the fields of hypertension and psychopharmacology.

2. 1970

   prix Nobel — Médecine

   Biologie

   for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmittors in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation