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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
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Peter B. Medawar, 1960.
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Frederick Gowland Hopkins
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Sir Henry Dale, 1956.
Sir Henry Dale
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Lord Adrian. 1956.
Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian
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Louis Ignarro
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Robert F. Furchgott
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Gertrude Elion, 1988.
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Alfred G. Gilman
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Axelrod, Julius
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Otto Loewi
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Daniel Bovet.
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George Herbert Hitchings
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Arvid Carlsson
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Earl W. Sutherland, Jr.
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Alexander Fleming
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John O'Keefe
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Peter J. Ratcliffe
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