| Authorised form of name | Axelrod; Julius (1912 - 2004) |
| Dates | 1912 - 2004 |
| Nationality | American |
| Place of birth | Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York, USA |
| Date of birth | 30/05/1912 |
| Place of death | Rockville, Maryland, USA |
| Date of death | 29/12/2004 |
| Occupation | Neurochemist |
| Activity | Education:
Public schools in New York including Seward Park High School; City College, New York, graduated with degree in Chemistry and Biology, 1933, Master's degree in Chemistry, New York University (1942); PhD, George Washington University (1955)
Career:
Laboratory Assistant, New York University Medical School (1933-1935); Chemist, Laboratory of Industrial Hygiene, New York City Public Health Department (1935-1946), lost his left eye when a bottle of ammonia exploded (1938); Research Associate, Research Division, Goldwater Memorial Hospital (1946-1949); Associate Chemist, Section on Pharmacology, Laboratory of Clinical Science, National Institute of Mental Health, Maryland (1949-1950), Senior Chemist (1953-1955), head of section on pharmacology, Laboratory of Clinical Science, National Institute of Mental Health (1955-1984); Scientist Emeritus, National Institutes of Health, Maryland (1996-2004)
Medals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) 1970 |
| Membership category | Foreign Member |
| Date of election | 26/04/1979 |
| Age at election | 66 |
| Relationships | Son of Isadore and Molly Axelrod, Jewish immigrants from Galician Poland (1906); married (1935) Sally Taub (d 1992) |
| Source | Obituaries:
Obituaries in Telegraph (3 January 2005); Nature (10 February 2005)
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2006 vol 52 pp 1-13, plate, by Leslie Iversen
References:
Digitized papers available at http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/HH/ |
| Code | NA4198 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1979/41 | Axelrod, Julius: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 1979 |
| IM/000167 | Axelrod, Julius | 1997 |