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Louis Ignarro

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Louis Joseph Ignarro (born May 31, 1941) is an American pharmacologist. For demonstrating the signaling properties of nitric oxide, he was co-recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Robert F. Furchgott and Ferid Murad. Currently, he is professor emeritus of pharmacology at the UCLA School of Medicine's department of molecular and medical pharmacology in Los Angeles, which he joined in 1985. Before relocating to California, he was a professor of pharmacology at Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, for 12 years. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Ignarro is the 209th most popular physician (down from 193rd in 2019), the 1,927th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,563rd in 2019) and the 32nd most popular American Physician.

Louis Ignarro is a pharmacologist and a professor of pharmacology and toxicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is most famous for his discovery of nitric oxide as a signaling molecule in the human body.

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Among physicians, Louis Ignarro ranks 209 out of 726. Before him are Duchenne de Boulogne, Leonid Rogozov, Georges Gilles de la Tourette, Marcel Petiot, Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi, and Patch Adams. After him are Philipp Franz von Siebold, Thomas Willis, Frederick Griffith, Guy de Chauliac, Waldemar Hoven, and Mehriban Aliyeva.

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Among people born in 1941, Louis Ignarro ranks 122. Before him are Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya, Ann-Margret, Florinda Bolkan, Graham Chapman, Jacqueline Boyer, and Abdelkader Bensalah. After him are Dag Solstad, Kim Hye-ja, Bertrand Tavernier, Jorge Solari, Aimé Jacquet, and Beniamino Stella.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Louis Ignarro ranks 1,927 out of 20,380. Before him are Paul H. O'Neill (1935), Kevin James (1965), Eric F. Wieschaus (1947), Terry O'Quinn (1952), Nelson Goodman (1906), and Frank Langella (1938). After him are Walter M. Miller Jr. (1923), William M. Branham (1909), Linda Thompson (1950), Connie Francis (1938), "Weird Al" Yankovic (1959), and Steve Ditko (1927).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Louis Ignarro ranks 32. Before him are E. Donnall Thomas (1920), Michael Stuart Brown (1941), Richard Axel (1946), Randy Schekman (1948), Robert Lefkowitz (1943), and Patch Adams (1945). After him are Robin Cook (1940), Robert Atkins (1930), John O'Keefe (1939), Joseph Erlanger (1874), John Harvey Kellogg (1852), and Gregg L. Semenza (1956).

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