오토 뢰비

소개

오토 뢰비(영어: Otto Loewi, 1873년 6월 3일 ~ 1961년 12월 25일)는 독일 제국 출신의 미국의 약리학자이다. 1936년에 신경 자극의 화학적 전달에 관한 연구로 헨리 핼릿 데일과 함께 노벨 생리학·의학상을 수상했다.

Otto Loewi was a German-born pharmacologist and psychobiologist who discovered the role of acetylcholine as an endogenous neurotransmitter. For this discovery, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1936, which he shared with Sir Henry Dale, who was a lifelong friend that helped to inspire the neurotransmitter experiment. Loewi met Dale in 1902 when spending some months in Ernest Starling's laboratory at University College, London.