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Robert F. Furchgott
American pharmacologist
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Joseph, Freiherr von Mering
German physician
Ferid Murad
Ferid Murad
American pharmacologist
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Louis Ignarro
American pharmacologist
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Sir James Black
Scottish pharmacologist
Gertrude B. Elion
Gertrude B. Elion
American scientist
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Alfred G. Gilman
American pharmacologist
Purkinje, Jan Evangelista
Jan Evangelista Purkinje
Czech physiologist
Axelrod, Julius
Julius Axelrod
American biochemist
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Tao Hongjing
Chinese Daoist
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Otto Loewi
German-American pharmacologist
Daniel Bovet.
Daniel Bovet
Italian pharmacologist
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George Herbert Hitchings
American scientist
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Pedanius Dioscorides
Greek physician
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Arvid Carlsson
Swedish pharmacologist
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Earl W. Sutherland, Jr.
American pharmacologist
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Joshua Harold Burn
British pharmacologist
Brunton, Sir Thomas Lauder, 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st Baronet
British physician
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Crateuas
Greek artist and physician
John Jacob Abel.
John Jacob Abel
American pharmacologist and physiological chemist