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Louis J. Ignarro was born in 1941 in Brooklyn, New York. His parents were Italian immigrants and his father was a carpenter in Torre del Greco, near Naples. Ignarro grew up in Long Beach, New York, which is a suburb of New York City on the south shore of Long Island. Ignarro received his first chemistry set as a gift at the age of 8. [5]
Nobel disease or Nobelitis is an informal term for the embrace of strange or scientifically unsound ideas by some Nobel Prize winners, usually later in life. [1] [2] [3] It has been argued that the effect results, in part, from a tendency for Nobel winners to feel empowered by the award to speak on topics outside their specific area of expertise, [4] [5] [6] although it is unknown whether ...
Louis J. Ignarro (b. 1941) Ferid Murad (1936–2023) 1999 Günter Blobel (1936–2018) United States "for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell" [99] 2000 Arvid Carlsson (1923–2018) Sweden "for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system" [100]
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Tulane also hosted several prominent faculty, such as two members who each won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Louis J. Ignarro and Andrew V. Schally. Other notables such as Rudolph Matas, "father of vascular surgery" and George E. Burch, inventor of the phlebomanometer in medicine, also were on faculty at Tulane.
The missing steps in the signaling process were filled in by Robert F. Furchgott and Louis J. Ignarro of UCLA, for which the three shared the 1998 Nobel Prize (and for which Murad and Furchgott received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1996).
Louis J. Ignarro, faculty 1973–1985; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1998 Walter Isaacson , author and former CEO of CNN; member of the Board of Tulane T.R. Kidder , archaeologist
Louis Freeh (born 1950 in Jersey City, New Jersey) - Director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) 1993–2001; Rudolph Giuliani - early career was a US attorney in S.D.N.Y., prosecuting high-profile cases, including Cosa Nostra cases; Dan Mitrione - Italian-born American police officer and U. S. government advisor in Latin America ...