Sir Henry Hallett Dale (1875-1968)

Awarded the Prize “for his discoveries relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses.”

British physiologist. Dale was born in London on June 9, 1875. In 1894, he entered Trinity College and graduated through the Natural Sciences Tripos. He qualified as B.Ch. in 1903 and became M.D. in 1909. In 1914, he was appointed Director of the Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology at the National Institute for Medical Research, becoming in 1928 Director of this Institute. In 1942 he became Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Davy-Faraday Laboratory at the Royal Institution. He was Fellow of the Royal Society. Dale died on July 23, 1968 in Cambridge.