Showing posts with label Furchgott. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Furchgott. Show all posts

Jun 8, 2009

Viagra Developer

Robert Furchgott, a Nobel prize-winning pharmacologist whose work with the gas nitric oxide helped develop the anti-impotency drug Viagra, has died at the age of 92. How interesting nitric oxide is a free radical and Viagra makes radicals free. Hmmm.