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- Julius Axelrod was born on May 30th, 1912, in New York City. He obtained his B. Sc. in 1933 at the College of the City of New York, M. A. in 1941 at New York University, and Ph. D. in 1955 from the George Washington University.
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He received his bachelor's degree in biology from the College of the City of New York in 1933. Axelrod wanted to become a physician, but was rejected from every medical school to which he applied.
Dec 29, 2004 · He obtained his B. Sc. in 1933 at the College of the City of New York, M. A. in 1941 at New York University, and Ph. D. in 1955 from the George Washington University.
May 29, 2018 · Julius Axelrod was a pharmacologist and neurochemist who made groundbreaking discoveries on neurotransmitters and drug metabolism. He won the Nobel Prize in 1970 for his work on the reuptake and deactivation of norepinephrine and serotonin.
Ironically, Julius Axelrod wanted to become a physician, but was rejected from every medical school to which he applied. He was born in 1912 in New York, where he gained a BSc at the city college in 1933, and in leisurely order, an MA at NYU in 1941 and PhD from the George Washington University in 1955. He was busy between degrees, however.
Julius Axelrod, Ph.D., was best known for his work on brain chemistry in the early 1960s that led to modern-day treatments for depression and anxiety disorders, for which he shared one-third of the 1970 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
Oct 29, 2020 · After taking a year out to achieve his PhD at George Washington University Medical School and graduating in 1955, he returned to the National Institute for Mental Health—where he worked until his retirement aged 72 in 1984—and began some of the key research of his career.
While working for the Department of Health, Axelrod took night classes at NYU and earned his Master of Science degree in chemistry in 1941 after completing his master's thesis on the chemical breakdown of enzymes in cancerous tumor tissues.
