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Sir Henry Dale (1875-1968)
Sir Henry Dale was born 1875 in London. He
studied physiology and zoology in Cambridge and at St. Bartholomew's
Hospital in London and won his medical degree in 1903. While working
in London as a pharmacologist in 1905, he met Professor Otto Loewi with
whom he remained close friends for life. In 1928, Sir Henry became director
of the National Institute for Medical Research. He worked with Paul
Ehrlich for four months, hence their friendship and the support he received
from Frau Marquardt. Sir Henry worked primarily on the mechanism of
action of ergot of rye and other alkaloids, and on the pharmacological
effects of tyramine, histamine, and acetylcholine. He received with
Otto Loewi the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1936 for discoveries in the
chemical transmission of nerve impulses. |
