1912- . US neuropharmacologist, who shared
the 1970 Nobel Prize for Medicine with the
biophysicists Bernard Katz and Ulf von Euler
for his work on neurotransmitters (the
chemical messengers of the brain).
Axelrod wanted to know why the messengers,
once transmitted, ever stopped operating. 
Through his studies he found a number of
specific enzymes that rapidly degraded the
neurotransmitters.

Subject by: Russell Webb