Nobel Laureates

2004 - Richard Axel, Linda B. Buck
For their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system.

2000 - Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard, Eric R. Kandel
For their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system.

1991 - Erwin Neher, Bert Sakmann
For their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells.

1986 - Stanley Cohen, Rita Levi-Montalcini
For their discoveries of growth factors.

1981 - ½ prize to Roger W. Sperry
For his discoveries concerning the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres.

1981 - ½ prize, jointly to David H. Hubel, Torsten N. Wiesel
For their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system.

1977 - ½ prize, jointly to Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally
"The peptide hormone production of the brain".

1973 - Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz and Nikolaas Tinbergen
for their discoveries concerning "organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns".

1970 - Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler and Julius Axelrod
For their discoveries concerning "the humoral transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanisms for their storage, release and inactivation".

1967 - Ragnar Granit, Haldan Keffer Hartline, George Wald
For their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye.

1963 - Sir John Carew Eccles, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Andrew Fielding Huxley
For their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane.

1949 - ½ prize: Walter Rudolf Hess
For his discovery of the functional organization of the interbrain as a coordinator of the activities of the internal organs.

1949 - ½ prize: Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz
For his discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses.

1944 - Joseph Erlanger, Herbert Spencer Gasser
For their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres.

1936 - Sir Henry Hallett Dale & Otto Loewi
For their discoveries relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses.

1914 - Robert Bárány
For his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus.

1906 - Camillo Golgi, Santiago Ramón y Cajal
In recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system.