The Julius Axelrod Papers Viewers You Need to Browse the Collection Exhibit Alphabetical Listing Chronological Listing Finding Aid Search the Full Collection Comments Julius Axelrod (b. 1912) is an American pharmacologist and neuroscientist who shared the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the actions of neurotransmitters in regulating the metabolism of the nervous ...

The Nature of the Endothelium-Derived Relaxing Factor Our research includes studies on the mechanisms by which various vasodilators, both endothelium-dependent and independent, and near ultraviolet radiation produce relaxation of vascular smooth muscle. Also, we are investigating whether the endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF) is simply nitric oxide or a mixture of substances. In 1980, we ...

BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS National Academy of Sciences Gertrude B. Elion January 23, 1918 February 21, 1999 By Mary Ellen Avery IN THE SPRING OF 1933 Gertrude Elion graduated from high school and that summer she had to select a major subject before she could begin her freshman year at Hunter College. This posed a quandary for the future Nobel Prize recipient, as well as holder of 45 patents, 23 ...

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BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS National Academy of Sciences Alfred Gilman February 5, 1908 January 13, 1984 By Murdoch Ritchie ALFRED GILMAN, an internationally renowned pharmacologist who died on January 13, 1984, will be remembered by countless scholars for his coauthorship of the seminal textbook on the pharmacological basis of therapeutics, by generations of medical students for his brilliant and ...