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Sir James Black
Scottish pharmacologist
Ferid Murad
Ferid Murad
American pharmacologist
Robert F. Furchgott
American pharmacologist
Gertrude Elion, 1988.
Gertrude B. Elion
American scientist
Louis Ignarro
American pharmacologist
Alfred G. Gilman
American pharmacologist
Purkinje, Jan Evangelista
Jan Evangelista Purkinje
Czech physiologist
Axelrod, Julius
Julius Axelrod
American biochemist
Tao Hongjing
Chinese Daoist
botanical illustration
Pedanius Dioscorides
Greek physician
Daniel Bovet.
Daniel Bovet
Italian pharmacologist
Otto Loewi
German-American pharmacologist
George Herbert Hitchings
American scientist
Arvid Carlsson
Swedish pharmacologist
Earl W. Sutherland, Jr.
American pharmacologist
Joshua Harold Burn
British pharmacologist
Brunton, Sir Thomas Lauder, 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st Baronet
British physician
John Jacob Abel.
John Jacob Abel
American physiological chemist
Crateuas
Greek artist and physician
Joseph, Freiherr von Mering
German physician