“Calcium ions are the essential link between the membrane depolarization and the quantal release of transmitter.”

— Bernard Katz

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About Bernard Katz

Scientist • British

Sir Bernard Katz was a German-born British biophysicist, renowned for his work on nerve biochemistry. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970 for his discoveries concerning the mechanisms of...

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