The English pharmacologist and neurophysiologist Sir Henry Hallett Dale (1875-1968) shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries relating to the chemical transmission of nerve impulses.

Henry Dale, son of C. J. Dale, a businessman, was born in London on June 9, 1875. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1894 with a scholarship, read physiology and zoology, and graduated bachelor of arts in 1898. During 2 years of postgraduate work at Cambridge he worked under W. H. Gaskell, J. N. Langley, and (Sir) F. Gowland Hopkins. In 1900 Dale started the clinical work at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, that was necessary for his Cambridge medical degree, which he took in 1903. After research at University College, London, and a period in Paul Ehrlich's research institute at Frankfurt am Main, Dale was invited by (Sir) Henry S. Wellcome in 1904 to accept the post of pharmacologist to the Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories. Two years later...