“F” is for Furchgott, Robert Francis (1916-2009). Pharmacologist, Nobel laureate. A native of Charleston, Furchgott grew up in Orangeburg. He graduated from the University of North Carolina and received his Ph.D. fn biochemistry from Northwestern University. He was a research fellow and faculty member of a number of prominent medical schools including Cornell University and Washington University. He became known for his research in cardiac pharmacology, peripheral adrenergic mechanisms, the theory of drug-receptor mechanisms, and vascular pharmacology and physiology. In 1986 Furchgott and two other scientists were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system. Robert Francis Furchgott received numerous other awards and was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Academy of Arts and Sciences.
“F” is for Furchgott, Robert Francis (1916-2009)
