Viagra developer Robert Furchgott dies
p2pnet news view | Off Topic:- Robert Furchgott shared a Nobel prize in 1998 for showing nitric oxide played an important role in the cardiovascular system.
So?
“The discovery that the gas could help enlarge blood vessels was a factor in the development of Viagra,” says the BBC.
“Nitric oxide had been known as an air pollutant that contributed to smog and acid rain, but research by Dr. Furchgott, Dr. Louis J. Ignarro and Dr. Ferid Murad proved that it acted as an important signal in the cardiovascular system, mediating blood pressure and blood flow,” says the New York Times, adding:
“In an interview with The New York Times in 1998, Dr. Valentin Fuster, then president of the American Heart Association, said that ‘the discovery of nitric oxide and its function is one of the most important in the history of cardiovascular medicine’.”
BBC – US ‘Viagra scientist’ dies at 92, May 23, 2009
New York Times – Robert Furchgott, Nobelist for Work on a Gas, Dies at 92, May 22, 2009
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May 26th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
“Viagra developer Robert Furchgott dies”
I picture a CLOSED casket ceremony, with a very exhausted-looking wife sighing, “Lord, you DO have mercy after all!”
(Yeah, yeah… Go ahead and flame me! You KNEW this was coming.)
: )
May 26th, 2009 at 10:42 pm
Shame on you DA………..you beat me to it !!
BTW. May he rest in peace!!
May 28th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
He’s a stiff!
September 9th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Well he did help a lot of men after all.