Bernard Katz (1911-2003)

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

British physiologist. Katz was born on March 26, 1911 at Leipzig, Germany. He studied Medicine at the University of Leipzig obtained his M.D. in 1934. He received his Ph.D. in 1938 the degree of Doctor of Science at London University in 1942. He became British citizen in 1941. He was appointed Reader in Physiology in 1950; since 1952 he holds the post of Professor of Biophysics at University College, London. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1952. Katz died in London on April 20, 2003.