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SIR HENRY DALE, the new president of the Royal Society, is now director of the National Institute for Medical Research, and was formerly director of the Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories (1904–14). For ten years (1925–35) he was one of the secretaries of the Royal Society. Over a long period, and with a succession of collaborators, he carried out important researches on the effects of histamine, an amine derived from ergot. For this work he was awarded a Royal Medal of the Society in 1924. This was extended to the isolation of histamine and acetyl-choline from animal tissues. Much of his later work was devoted to the discovery of the part played by these and other substances in a large number of important physiological and pathological processes. Closely related researches were being carried out in 1924 by Prof. Otto Loewi, then of the University of Graz, and Dale and Loewi were chosen to share the Nobel Prize for Medicine for 1936. In the following year, Sir Henry was awarded the Copley Medal of the Royal Society. As head of the National Institute for Medical Research, Sir Henry has directed a large number of investigations both within and outside his own special field. Numerous investigators from many countries have worked under his guidance.
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Sir Henry Dale, C.B.E., Pres. R.S. Nature 146, 741 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146741b0
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