Word: euler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country of 120 million people can not be ruled by a President chosen by a single man and ratified by a handful of others." So said Brazil's losing presidential candidate, Euler Bentes Monteiro, but he was wrong. To the surprise of no one, the country's electoral college-heavily weighted in favor of the pro-government Alliance for National Renewal (ARENA)-chose General Joao Baptista Figueiredo, 60, to succeed retiring President Ernesto Geisel for a six-year term beginning in March. The predictable vote was 355 for Figueiredo, vs. 226 for Monteiro, who represented the Brazilian Democratic...
...begun to understand the complex mechanisms by which these messages are transmitted. Last week Stockholm's Royal Caroline Institute honored the work of three scientists whose research has laid the groundwork for that understanding. It awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine to Professor Ulf von Euler of Sweden, Sir Bernard Katz of Great Britain and Dr. Julius Axelrod...
...findings, which the Caroline Institute says have "greatly stimulated the search for remedies against nervous and mental disturbance," are complementary. Sir Bernard, head of the department of biophysics at London's University College, has discovered that a transmitter chemical called acetylcholine is released at nerve-muscle junctions. Von Euler, a Caroline Institute staff member whose father won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1929, has found that a chemical called noradrenaline is stored in small granules within the nerve fibers and serves as a transmitter at nerve terminals. Dr. Axelrod, chief of pharmacology of the National Institute of Mental...