Died 2010-03-22.
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James Black
Sir James Whyte Black was a Scottish physician and pharmacologist. Together with Gertrude B. Elion and George H. Hitchings, he shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1988 for pioneering strategies for rational drug-design, which, in his case, led to the development of propranolol and cimetidine. Black established a Veterinary Physiology department at the University of Glasgow, where he became inte…
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science · Scottish doctor and pharmacologist (1924–2010) · physician · pharmacologist · pharmacist · inventor · cardiologist · university teacher · chemist · also James Black, James Black (pharmacologist), Sir James Whyte Black, James Whyte Black, Sir James Black, J. Black
Born 14 June 1924 · Died 22 March 2010 · Q110974
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2010· 2 entries
Black died, aged 85, on the morning of 22 March 2010 after a long illness.
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2008· 1 entry
Was Awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Medical Futures Innovation Awards, accompanied by his wife Professor Rona Mackie Black, in front of a distinguished audience of one thousand guests
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2004· 1 entry
Won Royal Medal (2004).
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Salamanca (1996).
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1994· 2 entries
Awarded Ellison–Cliffe Lecture (1994).
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Received the Ellison-Cliffe Medal from the Royal Society of Medicine and in 2004 the Royal Medal from the Royal Society
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (1993).
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1992· 3 entries
His death was announced by the University of Dundee, where Black served as Chancellor from 1992 to 2006.
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Accepted an offer to succeed the 16th Earl of Dalhousie as chancellor of the university and was installed as chancellor at the award ceremony held in Dundee Repertory Theatre on 29 April 1992
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Career landmark: chancellor (1992–2006).
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1988· 4 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1988).
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For pioneering strategies for rational drug-design, which, in his case, led to the development of propranolol and cimetidine
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With funding from Johnson & Johnson and led a team of 25 scientists in drugs research, including work on gastrin inhibitors which can prevent some stomach cancers
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1983· 1 entry
Awarded Scheele Award (1983).
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1982· 2 entries
Awarded Wolf Prize in Medicine (1982).
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Black was awarded the Wolf Prize in Medicine, and the year after the Scheele Award
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded John Scott Award (1981).
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1980· 2 entries
Awarded Cameron Prize of the University of Edinburgh (1980).
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Black's association with the University of Dundee was renewed when the institution recognised his many achievements by conferring him with the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws
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1979· 3 entries
Awarded Canada Gairdner International Award (1979).
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Awarded InBev-Baillet Latour Health Prize (1979).
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Was awarded the Artois-Baillet Latour Health Prize
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1978· 1 entry
Awarded Mullard Award (1978).
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1976· 2 entries
Awarded Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award (1976).
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And the same year he was awarded the Lasker award
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1975· 1 entry
And soon outsold propranolol to become the world's largest-selling prescription drug
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1973· 2 entries
Published “The Pricing of Options and Corporate Liabilities” in Journal of Political Economy — cited 19,818 times.
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Where he established a new undergraduate course in medicinal chemistry but he became frustrated by the lack of funding for research and accepted the post of director of therapeutic research at the Wellcome Research Labor
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1964· 1 entry
And joined Smith, Kline and French where he worked for nine years until 1973
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1958· 2 entries
And, while there, developed propranolol, a beta blocker used for the treatment of heart disease
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Remaining with the company until 1964, during which time he invented propranolol, which later became the world's best-selling drug
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1950· 1 entry
And then on to join the University of Glasgow (Veterinary School) where he established the Veterinary Physiology Department and developed an interest in the way adrenaline affects the human heart, particularly in those s
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1944· 1 entry
And the couple married in 1946 upon his graduation
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1943· 1 entry
And graduated from University of St Andrews School of Medicine with an MB ChB in 1946
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1924· 1 entry
Born 1924-06-14.
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