This week the teacher told us that we are going to do a project about the Nobel prize winner. Firstly, we make a table about the winners of the Nobel prize on "Drive". Later, I chose one of them, and finally, I will begin to write some information. The men who select called Robert Francis Furchgott (U.S.A) , Louis J. Ignarro (U.S.A) and Ferid Murad (U.S.A) and he won in 1998 a Nobel prize of medicine and physiology, for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system.
Robert F. Furchgot was born in the coastal city of Charleston in 1916 and lived there until I was thirteen. When he went a conference in his city when he was a child, he enamoured of "natural history" and later of that, he began to analyse the world of the physiology and medicine.
In 1978, he discovered a substance in endothelial cells that relaxes blood vessels, calling it endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF). His first Nobel prize he arrived in 1998, and years before Furchgott also received a Gairdner Foundation International Award for his ground breaking discoveries in 1991, and the Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1996.
Unfortunately, Robert F. Furchgot died on may in 2009 with 92 years old, in his house in Charleston.
Louis J. Ignarro was born in 1941 in Brooklyn (New York). His parents were Italian immigrants.
On the one hand, nowadays he is professor of pharmacology on the UCLA School of Medicine's in Los Angeles and he incorporated in 1856. Later he went to work to California and he was a professor of pharmacology at Tulane University School of Medicine, for 12 years. On the other hand, Ignarro published a lot of books for lay audiences about health and wellness focusing on the benefits of increasing nitric oxide production. He is a frequent public speaker on these and related topics.
In his life, he won five prizes, such as: (plus the prize that he won in 1998).
1994: Roussel prize
1995: CIBA prize
1998: AEC prizepremio de la Asociación Estadounidense del Corazón.
1999: ACEE prize
Ferid Murad is an Albanian immigrant from Gostivar (Macedonia). He received his degree in chemistry from the pre-med program in 1958, and the prize from Case Western Reserve University in 1965. He made professor in 1970, before moving to Stanford in 1981.
On may in 2012, he was proclaimed in Albania a honorary citizen because of his career and his achievements.
Now, I am going to put a video about of these three winers, namely, about his life, his prizes, I hope that you like a lot! And with this video I say ByeBye:)
A video of Ferid Murad
A video of Louis J. Ignarro
A video of the nobel prize in 1998
