biography
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| lived:
| (1924– )
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| biography:
| Pharmacologist, born in Uddingston, South Lanarkshire, WC Scotland, UK. He studied medicine at St Andrews, Scotland, then taught at various universities, in 1984 becoming professor of analytical pharmacology at King's College, London. His reasoning on how the heart's workload could be reduced led to the discovery of beta-blockers in 1964, and his deductions in 1972 on acid secretion in the stomach resulted in the introduction of cimetidine in the treatment of stomach ulcers. He shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1988. |
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