<p>The discovery of neurotransmitters and the firing of the EEG were different discoveries. Hans Berger was not the first electroencephalographer (Caton was), but Berger was the first to dedicate time to studying the firing of the brain. Berger was excessively self-conscious about his initial findings on EEG, so much so that he undertook 5 years of testing and surveying the results of his studies on EEG before he released it to the public in report form. Loewi was the first neuroscientist to prove that neurotransmistters are released in the junction (synapse) between the vagus nerve and the heart muscle. He received a Nobel Prize with Henry Hallett Dale from Cambridge England in 1936 for their discoveries. Loewi wrote: -</p><div class="editor-indent" style="margin-left: 30px;"><p><i>The night before Easter Sunday of that year, I awoke, turned on the light, and jotted down a few notes on a tiny slip of thin paper. Then I fell asleep again. It occurred to me at six o’clock in the morning that I had written down something most important, but I was unable to decipher the scrawl. The next night, at three o’clock, the idea returned. It was the experiment to determine whether or not the hypothesis of chemical transmission that I had though about years ago was correct. I got up immediately, went of&nbsp; the laboratory, and performeds a simple experiment on a frog heart according to the nocturnal design. (Loewi, 1960, 15).</i></p></div>