Bernard Katz

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Sir Bernard Katz
Goldman–Hodgkin–Katz voltage equation
Quantal neurotransmitter release
SpouseMarguerite ("Rita") Penly Katz (d. 1999)
Children2 sons
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Archibald Vivian Hill

Sir Bernard Katz, FRS[1] (German pronunciation: [ˈbɛʁnaʁt kat͡s] ⓘ; 26 March 1911 – 20 April 2003)[2] was a German-born British[3] physician and biophysicist, noted for his work on nerve physiology; specifically, for his work on synaptic transmission at the nerve-muscle junction. He shared the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1970 with Julius Axelrod and Ulf von Euler. He was made a Knight Bachelor in 1969.

Life and career

Katz was born in

University of Leipzig
. He graduated in 1934 and fled to Britain in February 1935.

Katz went to work at

Hill and his wife Margaret in the top flat of their house in Highgate.[8]

Back in England he also worked with the 1963 Nobel prize winners

Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1952.[1]
He stayed as head of Biophysics until 1978 when he became emeritus professor.

Katz married Marguerite Penly in 1945. He died in London on 20 April 2003, at the age of 92. His son Jonathan[4] is Public Orator of The University of Oxford.

Research

His research uncovered fundamental properties of

vesicle during exocytosis
.

Katz's work had immediate influence on the study of

organochlorines, the basis of new post-war study for nerve agents and pesticides
, as he determined that the complex enzyme cycle was easily disrupted.

See also

References

  1. ^
    S2CID 22565720
    .
  2. ^ "School of Katz" (PDF). Quarterly Journal of Experimental Biology. 1990. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 March 2009. Retrieved 23 December 2007.
  3. ^ "Sir Bernard Katz | British physiologist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  4. ^ a b "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1970".
  5. ^ "Kanematsu Laboratories - Research - Sydney Medical School - the University of Sydney". Archived from the original on 10 November 2014. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
  6. ^ "Australia's Nobel Laureates and the Nobel Prize | australia.gov.au". Archived from the original on 14 August 2014. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  7. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/61415. Retrieved 21 April 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  8. ISBN 0-9523659-0-1
    .. p.85
  9. ^ The Release of Neural Transmitter Substances (The Sherrington Lectures X), Charles C Thomas Publisher, Springfield (Illinois) 1969, pp. 60

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