Portrait of Bernard Katz
Date
1952
Sitter
Bernard Katz (1911) , Physiologist
Creator
Walter Stoneman (1876 - 1958, British) , Photographer
Creator - Organisation
J. Russell & Sons, Photographer
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height (print): 200mm
width (print): 150mm
width (print): 150mm
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Description
Half-length portrait of Bernard Katz turned to the left and looking left of the camera as viewed.
Sir Bernard Katz (1911-2003), German-British experimental physiologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1952, served as its Secretary and Vice-President between 1968-1976, and was awarded its Copley Medal, 1967 and Croonian Award, 1961. He was the joint recipient of the Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) in 1970 with Ulf von Euler (1905-1983) and Julius Axelrod (1912-2004) for ‘their discoveries concerning the humoral transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation’.
Sir Bernard Katz (1911-2003), German-British experimental physiologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1952, served as its Secretary and Vice-President between 1968-1976, and was awarded its Copley Medal, 1967 and Croonian Award, 1961. He was the joint recipient of the Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) in 1970 with Ulf von Euler (1905-1983) and Julius Axelrod (1912-2004) for ‘their discoveries concerning the humoral transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation’.
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