Robert F. Furchgott

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1998

“for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system”

Robert F. Furchgott was an American pharmacologist who shared the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system. He was affiliated with the SUNY Health Science Center when he received the award.