title: Victor P. Whittaker (1919-2016).
abstract: This Obituary honors Victor P. Whittaker, one of the pioneers in the field of neurochemistry. Victor Whittaker died on 5th July 2016 aged 97 in Cambridge (UK) after a short illness. Victor is best known for his landmark advances in the subcellular fractionation of brain tissue which led to the isolation of synaptosomes and subsequently synaptic vesicles at the beginning of the 1960s and for the cellular and molecular analysis of the cholinergic synapse.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. h.zimmermann@bio.uni-frankfurt.de.
authors.forename: Herbert
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zimmermann
authors.affiliation: Kikkutveien 6, Oslo, Norway.
authors.forename: Frode
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fonnum
mesh_terms: D001923:Brain Chemistry; D002802:Cholinesterases / Q000235:genetics; D004739:England; D005858:Germany; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D009448:Neurochemistry / Q000266:history*; D013574:Synaptosomes
chemical_list: D002802:Cholinesterases