Born 26 Mar 1911.

#German-born British physiologist who elucidated how #nerve cells transmit signals to muscles. Although it was known that neurons release acetylcholine at their terminal ends, Katz discovered in the early 1950s that the release of this #neurotransmitter occurs continuously and spontaneously, although at low levels when neurons are at rest. Further, he found that #acetylcholine is released in discrete packets, later called vesicles.

In the late 1960s, Katz determined that the amount of acetylcholine in a vesicle was related to the electrical potential at the terminal of an axon (the long extension of a neuron that transmits the impulse). These studies won him a share (with Julius Axelrod and Ulf von Euler) of the 1970 #NobelPrize for Physiology or Medicine.

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