Julius Axelrod

Awards

1. 1967

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

   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

   Nobel Prize — Medicine

   Biology

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