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Born January 25, 1923 • Uppsala • Sweden
Died June 29, 2018 (aged 95) • Gothenburg • Sweden
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2000)
Subjects Of Study dopamine • neurotransmitter
Greengard, Paul
Paul Greengard
American neurobiologist
Thomas C. Südhof
German-American neuroscientist
Ferid Murad
Ferid Murad
American pharmacologist
Louis Ignarro
American pharmacologist
Sir James Black
Scottish pharmacologist
Robert F. Furchgott
American pharmacologist
Gertrude Elion, 1988.
Gertrude B. Elion
American scientist
Alfred G. Gilman
American pharmacologist
Axelrod, Julius
Julius Axelrod
American biochemist
Otto Loewi
German-American pharmacologist
Daniel Bovet.
Daniel Bovet
Italian pharmacologist
George Herbert Hitchings
American scientist
Earl W. Sutherland, Jr.
American pharmacologist
Torsten Wiesel
Swedish biologist
Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson
Swedish biochemist
Ragnar Arthur Granit
Swedish physiologist
Theorell
Axel Hugo Teodor Theorell
Swedish biochemist
Sune K. Bergström
Sune K. Bergström
Swedish biochemist
Gullstrand
Allvar Gullstrand
Swedish ophthalmologist
Ulf von Euler
Swedish physiologist