OLEH HORNYKIEWICZ

Oleh Hornykiewicz (b. 1926 in Sychiw near Lviv/Lemberg, then Poland, now the Ukraine) is Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Brain Research of the University of Vienna, Austria. He is most famous for showing that the lack of dopamine causes symptoms of Parkinson's disease in humans and for suggesting treatment with L-DOPA. In 2000, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to three scientists (see interviews with them elsewhere in this volume) "for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system". Oleh Hornykiewicz was not among the awardees and 250 neuroscientists wrote an open letter protesting his omission…