Pharmacologists

(Al-Kindī) Abū-Yūsuf Ya’qūb ibn Ishāq al-Kindī (c. 801– 873CE), also known by the Latinised version of his name Alkindus to the Western world ( Arabic: أبو يوسف يعقوب ابن إسحاق الكندي, was a Muslim Arab scientist, mathematician, physician, and a talented musician. ...more on Wikipedia about "Al-Kindī"

Sir Alexander Fleming ( August 6, 1881 – March 11, 1955) was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. He discovered the antibiotic substance lysozyme and isolated the antibiotic substance penicillin from the fungus Penicillium notatum, for which he shared a Nobel Prize. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexander Fleming"

Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin (born June 17, 1925) is a pharmacologist, chemist and drug developer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexander Shulgin"

Alfred Newton Richards, an American pharmacologist, born March 22, 1876 in Stamford, New York; died March 24, 1966. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alfred Newton Richards"

Arthur Heffter ( June 15, 1859 – February 8, 1925) was a German pharmacologist and chemist. He isolated mescaline from the peyote cactus in 1897, the first such isolation of a naturally occurring psychedelic substance in pure form. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arthur Heffter"

Candace Beebe Pert (born 19th December 1946) is the author of Molecules of Emotion and the neuroscientist who discovered the opiate receptor in the brain. She also appeared as one of the "experts" in Bill Moyers 1993 PBS video production, "Healing and the Mind", and in the controversial 2004 film What the #$*! Do We Know!?. ...more on Wikipedia about "Candace Pert"

Dr. Corwin Hansch, Professor Emeritus at Pomona College in California, and Dr. Albert Leo, Adjunct Professor at that institution, have formed a company to develop and support computer software which can be of use in the design of pharmaceuticals. ...more on Wikipedia about "Corwin Hansch"

David E. Nichols (born December 23, 1944) is an American pharmacologist and medicinal chemist. ...more on Wikipedia about "David E. Nichols"

David Platt Rall ( August 3, 1926 – September 28, 1999) was a cancer specialist and a leader in environmental health studies, whose work in environmental health helped turn it into a scientific discipline. Rall also advanced public health and prevention. He directed the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences from 1971 - 1990. His work on toxicology and carcinogenesis was recognized by his appointment as the first director of the National Toxicology Program in 1978. He held the rank of Assistant Surgeon General in the United States Public Health Service. He also chaired the World Health Organization's Program on Chemical Safety. ...more on Wikipedia about "David Rall"

Dr. Deborah Mash is a professor of neurology and molecular and cellular pharmacology at the University of Miami School of Medicine. She is the world's foremost scientific expert on the hallucinogenic drug, ibogaine. ...more on Wikipedia about "Deborah Mash"

Ferid Murad (born September 14, 1936) is an American physician and pharmacologist, and a co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He was born in Whiting, Indiana to John Murad (born Xhabir Murat Ejupi), an Albanian and Henrietta Bowman, an American. He received his MD and pharmacology Ph.D. from Western Reserve University in 1965. He then joined the University of Virginia, where he was made professor in 1970, before moving to Stanford in 1981. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ferid Murad"

Frances Oldham Kelsey (b. 24 June 1914) is a naturalized American pharmacologist most famous as a reviewer for the US Food and Drug Administration who refused to authorize thalidomide for market when she had serious concerns about the drug's safety. ...more on Wikipedia about "Frances Oldham Kelsey"

George H. Hitchings ( April 18, 1905 – February 27, 1998) shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sir James Black and Gertrude Elion "for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment," Hitchings specifically for his work on chemotherapy. ...more on Wikipedia about "George H. Hitchings"

Gertrude B. Elion ( January 23, 1918 – February 21, 1999) was an American biochemist and pharmacologist, and a 1988 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Born in New York City to Jewish immigrant parents, she graduated from Hunter College in 1937 and New York University (M.Sc.) in 1941. Unable to obtain a graduate research position due to her sex, she worked as a lab assistant and a high school teacher, before becoming an assistant to George H. Hitchings at the Burroughs-Wellcome pharmaceutical company (now GlaxoSmithKline). She never obtained a Ph.D.. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gertrude B. Elion"

Göran Liljestrand ( 16 April 1886 – 16 January 1968), Swedish pharmacologist, known for the discovery of the Euler-Liljestrand mechanism. ...more on Wikipedia about "Göran Liljestrand"

Gustav Victor Rudolf Born, born 29 July 1921, Germany, son of Max Born, is Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology at King's College London and Research Professor at the William Harvey Research Institute, St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gustav Victor Rudolf Born"

Sir Henry Hallett Dale ( June 9, 1875 – July 23, 1968) was an English neuroscientist. For his study of acetylcholine as agent in the chemical transmission of nerve impulses he shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Otto Loewi. ...more on Wikipedia about "Henry Hallett Dale"

Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston, OM, FRS, ( September 24, 1898 – February 21, 1968) was a pharmacologist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the extraction of penicillin. ...more on Wikipedia about "Howard Walter Florey"

Sir James Whyte Black, OM, FRS, FRSE, FRCP (born 14 July 1924) is a Scottish pharmacologist who invented Propranolol, synthesized Cimetidine and received the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1988 for these landmark discoveries. ...more on Wikipedia about "James W. Black"

Johann Schröder ( 1600- 1664) was a German physician and pharmacologist who was the first person to recognise that arsenic was an element. In 1649, he produced the elemental form of arsenic by heating its oxide, and published two methods for its preparation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Johann Schröder"

John Jacob Abel ( May 19, 1857 - May 26, 1938) was a significant American biochemist and pharmacologist. He founded and chaired in 1891 at the University of Michigan the first department of pharmacology in the United States. In 1893, he went on to establish and chair the pharmacology department at Johns Hopkins University (one of the many schools at which he was educated). In 1897, he was the first to isolate epinephrine, also known as adrenaline. He later formulated the idea of the artificial kidney and in 1914 he isolated amino acids from the blood. ...more on Wikipedia about "John Jacob Abel"

Sir John Robert Vane ( March 29, 1927 – November 19, 2004) was a British pharmacologist. His father was the son of immigrants from Russia and his mother came from a Worcestershire farming family. He was educated at King Edward's School in Edgbaston, Birmingham, and studied Chemistry at the University of Birmingham in 1944. Vane completed a doctorate in pharmacology from Oxford University in 1953. ...more on Wikipedia about "John Robert Vane"

Louis Couty (b. January 13, 1854, Nantes, France; d. November 22, 1884, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) was a French physician and physiologist. He worked at the Laboratory of Experimental Physiology at the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro, the first of its kind in Brazil. He was a collaborator of João Baptista de Lacerda (1846-1915), a Brazilian physiologist who was the lab's founder. ...more on Wikipedia about "Louis Couty"

Dr. Louis J. Ignaro (b. May 31, 1941) is an American pharmacologist. He was corecipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Robert F. Furchgott and Ferid Murad for demonstrating the signalling properties of nitric oxide. ...more on Wikipedia about "Louis J. Ignarro"

Maurício Oscar da Rocha e Silva (b. September 19, 1910, Rio de Janeiro; d. December 19, 1983, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil) was a Brazilian physician, biomedical scientist and pharmacologist. He discovered bradykinin, an endogenous polypeptide involved in the physiology, pharmacology and pathology of blood pressure control and many other phenomena related to the contraction of smooth muscles. ...more on Wikipedia about "Maurício Rocha e Silva"

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