Ulf von Euler vs John Vane

Ulf von Euler was a Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist who shared the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Julius Axelrod and Bernard Katz. He received the award for identifying norepinephrine as the principal neurotransmitter of the sympathetic nervous system. Euler's research focused on how nerve impulses are transmitted, and he also discovered important bioactive peptides like p...

John Vane was a British pharmacologist who shared the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on hormone-like substances known as prostaglandins. He discovered that aspirin and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs work by inhibiting the synthesis of prostaglandins, thereby reducing pain, inflammation, and fever. His biochemical assays allowed him to measure the effect of...