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Louis Ignarro
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American physiologist
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Louis Ignarro appears in Vinony's Nobel Prize in Medicine collection — one of 233 entries. It also appears in Nobel Laureates.
Within Vinony's link graph, Louis Ignarro is referenced by 302 other articles, and connects out to Brooklyn, pharmacology and nitric oxide.
It is catalogued under topics including 1941 births, Academic staff of King Saud University and American Nobel laureates.
Its subject is documented across 46 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1941-05-31 ) May 31, 1941 (age 85) , Brooklyn, NY , U.S.
- Alma mater
- Columbia University , University of Minnesota
- Known for
- Nitric Oxide
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1998)
- Fields
- Pharmacology
- Institutions
- Tulane University School of Medicine , UCLA School of Medicine , King Saud University
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1998
“for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Louis
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Employer
- King Saud University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- endothelium
- Image
- Louis Ignarro.jpg
- Residence
- United States
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- Commons category
- Louis Ignarro
- date of birth
- 1941-05-31
- Erdős number
- 10
- interested in
- pharmacology
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Encyclopedic overview
Louis Joseph Ignarro (born May 31, 1941) is an American pharmacologist. For demonstrating the signaling properties of nitric oxide, he was co-recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Robert F. Furchgott and Ferid Murad.
Currently, he is professor emeritus of pharmacology at the UCLA School of Medicine's department of molecular and medical pharmacology in Los Angeles, which he joined in 1985. Before relocating to California, he was a professor of pharmacology at Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, for 12 years. Ignarro has also previously worked as a staff scientist, research department, for the pharmaceutical division of CIBA-GEIGY Corporation in New York.
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