Description
The collection consists of pictorial materials,
including photographs provided by Dr. Ignarro, assembled for "Louis J. Ignarro:
the Road to Stockholm: a Nobel Mission," an exhibit displayed in the UCLA
Biomedical Library, 1999. The exhibit was curated by Anjay Rastogi, UCLA
Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, with collaboration of the UCLA
Chancellor's Office and the Biomedical Library's History and Special Collections
Division.
Background
Louis J. Ignarro was born May 31, 1941, in Brooklyn, New York. He studied
chemistry and pharmacy as an undergraduate at Columbia University and
pharmacology, with a minor in cardiac physiology, at the University of Minnesota
in Minneapolis, where he received a Ph.D. in 1966. Following an appointment in
the Department of Pharmacology at Tulane University in New Orleans (1979-1985),
he became Professor of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at the UCLA School of
Medicine in Los Angeles in 1985. In 1998, Ignarro, Robert F. Furchgott, and
Ferid Murad were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for
their discoveries concerning "nitric oxide as a signaling molecule in the
cardiovascular system."
Extent
1 document box
1 oversize folder
Restrictions
Publication Rights
Availability
The collection is open for research. Contact the History and Special
Collections Division, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA, for
information.