Bernard Katz
| Sir Bernard Katz | |
|---|---|
| Born |
26 March 1911 Leipzig, German Empire |
| Died | 20 April 2003 (aged 92) London, England |
| Fields | Neurophysiology |
| Institutions |
University College London Sydney Hospital |
| Alma mater | University of Leipzig |
| Academic advisors | Archibald Hill |
| Known for | Neurophysiology of the synapse in 197 |
| Notable awards |
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| Spouse | Marguerite ("Rita") Penly Katz (d.1999) (2 children) |
Sir Bernard Katz, FRS (26 March 1911 – 20 April 2003) was a German-born physician and biophysicist, noted for his work on nerve biochemistry. He shared the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1970 with Julius Axelrod and Ulf von Euler. He was knighted in 1970.
Katz was born in Leipzig, Germany, to a Jewish family originally from Russia, the son of Eugenie (Rabinowitz) and Max Katz, a fur merchant. He was educated at the Albert Gymnasium in that city from 1921 to 1929 and went on to study medicine at the University of Leipzig. He graduated in 1934 and fled to Britain in February 1935, because the rise of Hitler made for a dangerous environment for Jews.
Katz went to work at University College London, initially under the tutelage of Archibald Vivian Hill. He finished his PhD in 1938 and won a Carnegie Fellowship to study with John Carew Eccles at the Kanematsu Institute of Sydney Medical School. During this time, both he and Eccles gave research lectures at the University of Sydney. He was naturalised in 1941 and joined the Royal Australian Air Force in 1942. He spent the war in the Pacific as a radar officer and returned to UCL as an assistant director in 1946.
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