Ulf von Euler (1905-1983)

Awarded the Prize “for the discoveries concerning the humoral transmittors in the nerve terminals the mechanism for their storage, release inactivation.”

Swedish physiologist. Euler was born on February 7, 1905 in Stockholm, Sweden. He entered the Karolinska Institute as a medical student in 1922 graduated with M.D. in 1930. Then he was appointed as Assistant Professor in Pharmacology Professor of Physiology at the Karolinska Institute in 1939. During the years 1953 to 1960 he was a Member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine from 1961 to 1965 he served as Secretary of the Committee. In 1965 he was appointed Chairman of the Board of the Nobel Foundation. He was a Member of the Royal Academies of Sciences in Stockholm. Euler died on March 9, 1983 at Stockholm.