1937 CANNON, Walter Bradford (1871 – 1945); ROSENBLUETH, Arturo Stearns (1900 – 1970)
Autonomic neuro-effector systems.
The authors hypothesized the existence of two sympathins, one excitatory and the other inhibitory, now known as epinephrine and norepinephrine. See Nos. 1144 & 1350.
GMN 1354 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1566
1938 FULTON, John Farquhar (1899 – 1960)
Physiology of the nervous system.
Includes excellent bibliography.
GMN 1248 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2067
1938 WALKER, Arthur Earl (1907 – 1995)
The primate thalamus.
GMN 1451 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2321
1939 HODGKIN, Sir Alan Lloyd (1914 – 1998); HUXLEY, Sir Andrew Fielding (1917 – 2012)
Action potentials recorded from inside a nerve fibre.
Hodgkin and Huxley were the first to succeed in inserting electrodes into a living giant nerve fiber and to measure directly the action potential within it. In 1963 Hodgkin and Huxley shared the Nobel Prize in Physiol…
GMN 1310.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1165
1946 EULER, Ulf Svante Hansson von (1905 – 1983)
A specific sympathomimetic ergone in adrenergic nerve fibres (sympathin) and its relations to adrenaline and nor-adrenaline.
Noradrenaline shown to be the predominant transmitter of the effects of sympathetic nerve impulses. In 1970 Euler shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Katz and Axelrod "for their discoveries concernin…
GMN 1354.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1612
1948 HESS, Walter Rudolf (1881 – 1973)
Die funktionelle Organisation des vegetativen Nervensystems.
In 1949 Hess shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Egas Moniz in 1949 “for his discovery of the functional organization of the interbrain as a coordinator of the activities of the internal organs.”
GMN 1451.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2324
1952 KATZ, Sir Bernard (1911 – 2003)
Different forms of signalling employed by the nervous system.
In 1970 Katz shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Ulf von Euler and J. Axelrod "for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, re…
GMN 1354.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1619
1963 ECCLES, Sir John Carew (1903 – 1997)
The ionic mechanism of postsynaptic inhibition. IN: Prix Nobel in 1963, pp. 261-83.
Eccles shared the Nobel Prize with A. L. Hodgkin and A. F. Huxley in 1963. See No. 1310.1.
GMN 1310.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1182
