PHYSIOLOGY/MEDICINE: Julius Axelrod 1970 - Washington, DC
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A plaque to professor and and Nobel winner Julius Axelrod, on the campus of GWU.
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Location: District of Columbia, United States
Date Posted: 05/18/2009
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The plaque reads: "My GW education greatly broadened my perspective on the basic sciences and made it possible for me to perform important independent research."
Julius Axelrod PHD '55 and LLD '71
1970 Nobel laureate in Physiology and Medicine
Research Neuroscientist, National Institute of Health.
About Axelroad: "Julius Axelrod (May 30, 1912 – December 29, 2004) was an American biochemist. He won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970 along with Bernard Katz and Ulf von Euler. The Nobel Committee honored him for his work on the release and reuptake of catecholamine neurotransmitters, a class of chemicals in the brain that include epinephrine, norepinephrine, and, as was later discovered, dopamine. Axelrod also made major contributions to the understanding of the pineal gland and how it is regulated during the sleep-wake cycle." (
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