Born 7 Feb 1905; died 9 Mar 1983 at age 78.
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Swedish #physiologist who shared the 1970 #NobelPrize for Physiology or #Medicine (with Sir Bernard Katz and Julius Axelrod) for their independent study of #transmitter mechanisms of nerve cells. Since 1906, when Thomas Elliott first proposed that nerve cells communicate with each other and the muscles they control by the release of chemicals, there had been efforts to identify these substances. Euler's recognition was for his discovery (1946) of #noradrenaline which serves as #neurotransmitter at the nerve terminals of the #sympathetic #nervoussystem. He further showed how noradrenaline is stored in small nerve granules within the nerve fibres of this system. Euler had earlier, in 1935, discovered the substance he named #prostaglandin.
