Ignarro (Louis J.) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine photo archive, 1998

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Summary

Title:
Louis J. Ignarro Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Photo Archive,
Dates:
1998
Creators:
Dr. Anjay Rastogi et al.
Abstract:
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.
Extent:
1 document box 1 oversize folder
Language:
Collection materials in English
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Louis J. Ignarro Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine photo archive (Manuscript collection 170). Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections Division, University of California, Los Angeles.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of pictorial materials assembled for an exhibit at UCLA by Anjay Rastogi, UCLA Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, with collaboration of the UCLA Chancellor's Office and the UCLA Biomedical Library's History and Special Collections Division. The exhibit, entitled "Louis J. Ignarro: The road to Stockholm: A Nobel Mission" focused on Ignarro's early life, his research and teaching, and the Nobel ceremony and banquet. There are twenty-one folders, the last of which is oversize and housed in the map case of the History Special and Collections Division of the UCLA Biomedical Library.

Biographical / historical:

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."

Physical location:
Biomedical Library History and Special Collections Division, University of California, Los Angeles.

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Processed by Pat L. Walter.
Date Prepared:
©2005
Date Encoded:
Machine-readable finding aid derived from ColdFusion web application and SQLServer relational database. Date of source: February 2000

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research. Contact the History and Special Collections Division, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA, for information.

Terms of access:

Publication Rights

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Louis J. Ignarro Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine photo archive (Manuscript collection 170). Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections Division, University of California, Los Angeles.

Location of this collection:
Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library
12-077 Center for Health Sciences, Box 951798
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1798, US
Contact:
(310) 825-6940
AskLSC@library.ucla.edu
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