Victor P. Whittaker

Victor P. Whittaker
Victor Percy Whittaker
Born
Victor Percy Whittaker

11 June 1919
Ainsdale, England
Died5 July 2016 (aged 97)
Cambridge, England
Known forIsolation of synaptosomes and synaptic vesicles and biochemistry of synaptic vesicles
Scientific career
FieldsNeurobiochemistry and Cholinergic Transmission
Doctoral advisorRudolph Peters
Doctoral studentsThomas C. Südhof

Victor Percy Whittaker (11 June 1919 – 5 July 2016) was a British biochemist who pioneered studies on the subcellular fractionation of the brain. He did this by isolating synaptosomes and synaptic vesicles from the mammalian brain and demonstrating that synaptic vesicles store the neurotransmitter acetylcholine.

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