biography
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Vane, Sir John (Robert)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1927– )
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| biography:
| Biochemist, born in Tardebigg, Hereford and Worcester, WC England, UK. He studied chemistry and pharmacology at Birmingham and Oxford universities, then taught at Yale (1953–5), the Institute of Basic Medical Services in London (1955–61), and the University of London (1961–73). He then joined the Wellcome Research Laboratories in Beckenham, Kent (1973–85). He researched the chemistry of prostaglandins, and discovered a type that inhibits blood clots, as well as illuminating the operation of aspirin in treating pain. He shared the 1982 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. |
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