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  1. A conversation with Nobel Prize-winner Robert Furchgott
    A conversation with Nobel Prize-winner Robert Furchgott

    with Robert Furchgott on Oct 13, 1998

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Robert F. Furchgott is a Nobel Prize-winning American biochemist.

In 1978, Furchgott discovered a substance in endothelial cells that relaxes blood vessels, calling it endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF). By 1986, he had worked out EDRF’s nature and mechanism of action, and determined that EDRF was in fact nitric oxide (NO), an important compound in many aspects of cardiovascular physiology.

Aside from the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine he received in 1998, Furchgott has also received a Gairdner Foundation International Award for his groundbreaking discoveries (1991) and the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1996).

Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Furchgott