American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912)

Julius Axelrod

Julius Axelrod was an American biochemist. He won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970 along with Bernard Katz and Ulf von Euler. The Nobel Committee honored him for his work on the release and reuptake of catecholamine neurotransmitters, a class of chemicals in the brain that include epinephrine, norepinephrine, and, as was later discovered, dopamine. Axelrod also made major contributions to the understanding of the pineal gland and how it is regulated during the sleep-wake cycle.

Born

1912

May 30

Died

2004

Era

1910s

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2004 Died

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1416 The Council of Constance, called by Emperor Sigismund, a supporter of Antipope John XXIII, burns Jerome of Prague following a trial for heresy.
1431 Hundred Years' War: In Rouen, France, the 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal.

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The world in 1912

When Julius arrived

april 10 RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, UK, on her maiden and only voyage.
april 14 The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic and begins to sink.
april 15 The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,224 passengers and crew on board survive.
april 16 Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.

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Alfred Austin 1835– English author, poet, and playwright (died 1913) Colm Meaney 1953– Irish actor Danielle Harold 1992– English actress Gianmaria Bruni 1981– Italian race car driver Hannes Alfvén 1908–1995 Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1908) Im Yoon-ah 1990– South Korean singer and actress Irving Thalberg 1899–1936 American screenwriter and producer (died 1936) Jason Kenney 1968– Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Premier of Alberta Michael López-Alegría 1958– Spanish-American captain, pilot, and astronaut

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Arsenio Lacson 1912–1962 Filipino journalist and politician, Mayor of Manila (born 1912) Chien-Shiung Wu 1912–1997 Chinese-American physicist and academic (born 1912) Danny Thomas 1912–1991 American actor, producer, and humanitarian (born 1914) David Brower 1912– American environmentalist, founder of the Sierra Club Foundation (died 2000) Eleanor Powell 1912–1982 American actress and dancer (born 1912) Erich Honecker 1912–1994 German politician (died 1994) Georg Solti 1912–1997 Hungarian-English conductor and director (died 1997) Habib Elghanian 1912– Iranian businessman (died 1979) Jackson Pollock 1912–1956 American painter (born 1912)

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