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Born April 18, 1905 • Hoquiam • Washington
Died February 27, 1998 (aged 92) • Chapel Hill • North Carolina
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1988)
Subjects Of Study acyclovir
Gertrude B. Elion
Gertrude B. Elion
American scientist
Ferid Murad
Ferid Murad
American pharmacologist
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Louis Ignarro
American pharmacologist
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Robert F. Furchgott
American pharmacologist
Joshua Lederberg, 1958.
Joshua Lederberg
American geneticist
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Alfred G. Gilman
American pharmacologist
Allan MacLeod Cormack
Allan MacLeod Cormack
American physicist
Axelrod, Julius
Julius Axelrod
American biochemist
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Otto Loewi
German-American pharmacologist
Max Theiler
Max Theiler
American microbiologist
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André F. Cournand
American physiologist
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Earl W. Sutherland, Jr.
American pharmacologist
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Dickinson Woodruff Richards
American physiologist
Rosalyn S. Yalow
Rosalyn S. Yalow
American medical physicist
production of monoclonal antibodies
Georges J.F. Köhler
German immunologist
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Sir James Black
Scottish pharmacologist
Neher, Erwin
Erwin Neher
German physicist
Godfrey N. Hounsfield, 1979.
Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield
British engineer
Daniel Bovet.
Daniel Bovet
Italian pharmacologist
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Arvid Carlsson
Swedish pharmacologist