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Henry Hallett Dale
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Henry Hallett Dale

1875 – 1968 · aged 93

English pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (1875–1968)

Born
9 Jun 1875 · Islington
Died
23 Jul 1968 · Cambridge

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 107 years
  1. 9 Jun 1875BornBorn in Islington
  2. 1914AwardFellow of the Royal Society
  3. 1919AwardCommander of the Order of the British Empire
  4. 1919AwardCroonian Medal and Lecture
  5. 1921AwardBaly Medal
  6. 1924AwardRoyal Medal
  7. 1932AwardKnight Bachelor
  8. 1935AwardHarveian Oration
  9. 1936AwardNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  10. 1937AwardCopley Medal
  11. 1940 – 1945RolePresident of the Royal Society
  12. 1943AwardKnight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
  13. 1944AwardOrder of Merit
  14. 1945AwardHonorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons
  15. 1948 – 1950RolePresident of the Royal Society of Medicine
  16. 23 Jul 1968DiedDied in Cambridge

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1875 – 1968).

  1. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  2. 1898Spanish–American War
  3. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  4. 1914 – 1918World War I
  5. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  6. 1917Balfour Declaration
  7. 1917February Revolution
  8. 1917October Revolution
  9. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  10. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  11. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  12. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  13. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  14. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  15. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  16. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1938Munich Agreement
  18. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  19. 1939 – 1945World War II
  20. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  21. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  22. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  23. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  24. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  25. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  26. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  27. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  29. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  30. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  31. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  32. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  33. 1956Suez Crisis
  34. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  36. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  37. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  38. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  39. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  40. 1968Prague Spring

Biography

Sir Henry Hallett Dale (9 June 1875 – 23 July 1968) was an English pharmacologist and physiologist. For his study of acetylcholine as agent in the chemical transmission of nerve pulses (neurotransmission) he shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Otto Loewi.

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