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Medicine & Public Health
Louis J. Ignarro
b. 1941Long Beach, NYItalian American descendantLiving
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Why Included
Nobel laureate whose discovery that nitric oxide is a signaling molecule changed cardiovascular medicine and enabled treatments including Viagra.
Notable For
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1998
- Discovered nitric oxide as a biological signaling molecule
Honors & Recognition
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1998
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Quick Facts
- Field
- Medicine & Public Health
- Years
- b. 1941
- Birth Place
- Long Beach, NY
- Origin
- Italian American descendant
- Ancestry Verification
- Confirmed
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