Robert F. Furchgott
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Robert Francis Furchgott was an American Nobel Prize winning biochemist who contributed to the discovery of nitric oxide as a transient cellular signal in mammalian systems.
Portrait of Furchgott
Robert F. Furchgott
Furchgott and other 1998 Nobel Prize winners with former U.S. President Bill Clinton, November 1998
Ferid Murad
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Ferid Murad was an American physician and pharmacologist, His research demonstrated that nitroglycerin relaxes smooth muscle by releasing nitric oxide into the body. This work led to him sharing the 1
Robert F. Furchgott
…addition to receiving the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of nitric oxide as a new cellular signal in 1998 with Louis Ignarro and Ferid Murad, Furchgott's discovery that nitric oxide causes blood vessels to dilate provided a long-sought explanation for the therapeutic effects of nitroglycerin…
Murad at a lecture in 2008