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Louis Ignarro
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Louis Ignarro

American physiologist · born May 31, 1941

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Louis Joseph Ignarro is an American pharmacologist. For demonstrating the signaling properties of nitric oxide, he was co-recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Robert F. Furchgott and Ferid Murad.

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  1. ~57Received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1998

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2001 · Poland

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