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Julius Axelrod

Julius AxelrodBorn: 30-May-1912
Birthplace: New York City
Died: 29-Dec-2004
Location of death: Rockville, MD
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Chemist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Research of neurotransmitters

On the staff of the National Institute of Mental Health (1955-84).

Father: Isadore Axelrod
Mother: Molly Leichtling
Wife: Sally Taub (m. 1938, two sons)

    University: BS, City College of New York (1933)
    University: MS, New York University (1941)
    University: PhD, George Washington University (1955)

    Nobel Prize for Medicine 1970 (with Bernard Katz and Ulf von Euler)
    American Chemical Society
    American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    American Association for the Advancement of Science
    American Chemical Society
    American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
    Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society
    Polish Ancestry


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