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Robert F. Furchgott
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Robert F. Furchgott

Scientist · born June 4, 1916 · died 2009

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Robert Francis Furchgott was an American Nobel Prize winning biochemist who contributed to the discovery of nitric oxide as a transient cellular signal in mammalian systems.

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  1. ~80Received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research1996
  2. ~82Received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1998

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