Quote of the day
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
Bernard Katz
Born: March 26, 1911
Died: April 20, 2003 (aged 92)
Bio: Sir Bernard Katz was a German-born biophysicist, noted for his work on nerve biochemistry. He shared the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1970 with Julius Axelrod and Ulf von Euler. He was knighted in 1970.
Known for:
- Enhancing Employee Performance (1994)
- The Ways of an Atheist
- The release of neural transmitter substances (1969)
- Nerve, Muscle, and Synapse (1966)