
Person
Robert F. Furchgott
1916 – 2009 · aged 93
American biochemist (1916-2009)
- Born
- 4 Jun 1916 · Charleston
- Died
- 19 May 2009 · Seattle
Part ofJudaism74 BCE – today
Life timeline
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Showing 107 years
- 4 Jun 1916BornBorn in Charleston
- 1991AwardBristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Cardiovascular Research
- 1991AwardCanada Gairdner International Award
- 1994AwardJulius Axelrod Award
- 1996AwardAlbert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
- 1996AwardThe Louis and Artur Lucian Award in Cardiovascular Diseases
- 1998AwardNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 19 May 2009DiedDied in Seattle
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Major world events during their lifetime (1916 – 2009).
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
- 19581958 FIFA World Cup
- 1959Antarctic Treaty System
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup
- 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
- 1968Prague Spring
- 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
- 19721972 Summer Olympics
- 19741974 FIFA World Cup
- 19781978 FIFA World Cup
- 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
Biography
Robert Francis Furchgott (June 4, 1916 – May 19, 2009) was an American Nobel Prize winning biochemist who contributed to the discovery of nitric oxide as a transient cellular signal in mammalian systems.
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