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James Black

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Also known as Sir James Whyte Black, James Whyte Black, Sir James Black, J. Black, J.W. Black

Scottish doctor and pharmacologist (1924–2010)

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James Whyte Black (1924–2010) was a British physician, pharmacologist, and inventor. Born in Uddingston, he was educated at the University of St Andrews and the University of Dundee. His career included positions at the University of Glasgow, Imperial Chemical Industries, University College London, and King's College London. He died in London of prostate cancer.

Black was a member of the Royal Society, the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the Royal College of Physicians, London. He received the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, the Canada Gairdner International Award, the Wolf Prize in Medicine, and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He was appointed a Knight Bachelor.

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  • The Christian life
  • The Infant school grammar
  • Little grammarian, or, An Easy guide to the parts of speech
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  • Poems

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1988

    “for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
James
Family name
Black
Gender
male
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Place of birth
Uddingston
Place of death
London
Occupation
chemist
Position held
chancellor
Employer
University of St Andrews
Languages spoken
English language
Noble title
Knight Bachelor
Field of work
pharmacology
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James Black (pharmacologist).jpg
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member of
Academia Europaea
date of birth
1924-06-14
date of death
2010-03-21
Commons category
James Black (pharmacologist)
cause of death
prostate cancer
manner of death
natural causes
name in native language
James Whyte Black
birth name
James Whyte Black
different from
James Black
interested in
pharmacology
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Encyclopedic overview

Sir James Whyte Black (14 June 1924 – 22 March 2010) was a Scottish physician and pharmacologist. Together with Gertrude B. Elion and George H. Hitchings, he shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1988 for pioneering strategies for rational drug-design, which, in his case, led to the development of propranolol and cimetidine. Black established a Veterinary Physiology department at the University of Glasgow, where he became interested in the effects of adrenaline on the human heart. He went to work for ICI Pharmaceuticals in 1958 and, while there, developed propranolol, a beta blocker used for the treatment of heart disease. Black was also responsible for the development of cimetidine, an H2 receptor antagonist, a drug used to treat stomach ulcers.

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