# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bernard-katz
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:38:39.861Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/bernard-katz"
name: "Bernard Katz"
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description: "Sir Bernard Katz, FRS was a German-born British physician and biophysicist, noted for his work on nerve physiology; specifically, for his work on synaptic transmission at the nerve-muscle junction. He shared the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1970 with Julius Axelrod and Ulf von Euler. He was made a Knight Bachelor in 1969."
tagline: "German-British biophysicist (1911–2003)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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birthDate: "1911-03-26"
deathDate: "2003-04-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump