Louis J. Ignarro Ph.D.
Louis J. Ignarro Ph.D.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1998
Nobel co-recipients: Robert F. Furchgott and Ferid Murad
Name: Louis J. Ignarro
Birth: 31 May, 1941, Brooklyn, New York
Institution: University of California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Award: “Nitric Oxide as Signaling Molecule in Cardiovascular system”
Subject: cardiovascular physiology, pharmacology
Portion of cash: 1/3
Chinese University of Hong Kong: Honorary Doctorate 2009
While testifying before Congress in 2000, Ignarro remarked: “Only in America could the son of an uneducated carpenter receive the Nobel Prize in Medicine.”
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Nat’l Medal, Science
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The President’s National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
Title: Senior Physicist
Affiliation: European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) Geneva, Switzerland
Gender: Male
Award Discipline: Physical Sciences
Award Year: 1988
Citation: “For his incisive illumination of the properties of subnuclear particles, including exhaustive measurements of strange particles, neutral kaons, and high energy neutrino interactions.”
Presented by President Reagan in a White House ceremony on July 15, 1988.