Prof. Otto Loewi, For.Mem.R.S.

Otto Loewi

The end of the 19th century was the starting point of many discoveries in the field of the neurophysiology. At that time, only basic technical approaches were available, and new discoveries depended on few results and lots of deductions. Furthermore, the scientific community was often debating on theoretical speculations and was often divided. I have chosen to present a German neurophysiologist...

Otto Loewi & Neurochemical Phenomena.

*Professor of Medicine, T.N. Medical College (Retd.), Hon. Physician, Bhatia Hospital, Mumbai; **Consultant Internal Medicine, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai O Loewi (1873 1961) studied medicine at the University of Strasbourg and obtained his medical degree in 1896. Thereafter he worked in London under Starling. In 1905, he went to Austria and held professorial positions at the Un...

Otto Loewi: Ein Lebensbild in Dokumenten

Otto Loewi was born in Frankfurt in 1873, became professor of pharmacology in Graz in 1909 and laid the foundation of the theory of neurochemical transmission in 1920. For this he shared a Nobel prize with Dale in 1936, and in 1938, for being Jewish, he was briefly imprisoned and then expelled from Australia. He then emigrated to the United States where he spent the rest of his life. Loewi wrot...

Otto Loewi and the chemical transmission of vagus stimulation in the heart.

Main, Germany. After attending school in his native town he started to study medicine at the University of Munich in 1891 and completed his studies at the University of Strasbourg in 1896. He then took a course in inorganic chemistry in Frankfurt and spent a few months in the biochemical institute of Franz Hofmeister in Strasbourg. During 1897 and 1898,he worked at the City Hospital in Frankfur...

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