< /ˈbɜr nərd/, 1911–2003, British biophysicist, born in Germany: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1970.
noun
- Sir Bernard. 1911–2003, British neurophysiologist, born in Germany. Shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1970) with Julius Axelrod and Ulf von Euler
- German-born British physiologist. He shared a 1970 Nobel Prize for the study of nerve impulse transmission.