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Also Known As Sir Henry Hallett Dale
Born June 9, 1875 • London • England
Died July 23, 1968 (aged 93) • Cambridge • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1937) • Nobel Prize (1936)
Subjects Of Study acetylcholine • nerve impulse • transmission

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Lord Florey.
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