James Black
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James Black was a Scottish doctor and pharmacologist who made breakthrough discoveries in drug design that transformed how medicines are created. His work earned him the Nobel Prize and has saved countless lives by leading to new treatments for heart disease, ulcers, and other common conditions.
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- Born
- 1924-06-14
- Died
- 2010-03-21
- Works
- 52
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- The Christian life
- The Infant school grammar
- Little grammarian, or, An Easy guide to the parts of speech
- Black, White and the in Between
- Poems
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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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1924 births2010 deaths20th-century Scottish biologists20th-century Scottish inventors20th-century Scottish medical doctors20th-century Scottish scientists21st-century Scottish medical doctors21st-century Scottish scientistsAcademics of King's College LondonAcademics of the University of GlasgowAcademics of University College LondonAlumni of the University of Dundee