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Also Known As Sir James Whyte Black
Born June 14, 1924 • Scotland
Died March 21, 2010 (aged 85)
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1988)
Subjects Of Study angina pectoris • cimetidine • duodenal ulcer • gastric ulcer • propranolol
Arvid Carlsson
Swedish pharmacologist
Crick, Francis
Francis Crick
British biophysicist
Peter B. Medawar, 1960.
Sir Peter B. Medawar
British zoologist
Sir Alan Hodgkin
Sir Alan Hodgkin
British biophysicist
Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
British biochemist
Sir Henry Dale, 1956.
Sir Henry Dale
British physiologist
Lord Adrian. 1956.
Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian
British electrophysiologist
Ferid Murad
Ferid Murad
American pharmacologist
Louis Ignarro
American pharmacologist
Robert F. Furchgott
American pharmacologist
Alfred G. Gilman
American pharmacologist
Gertrude Elion, 1988.
Gertrude B. Elion
American scientist
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
Alexander Fleming
Alexander Fleming
Scottish bacteriologist
John O'Keefe
John O’Keefe
British-American neuroscientist
Peter J. Ratcliffe
British physician and scientist