Viagra scientist

ROBERT FURCHGOTT
Biochemist, pharmacologist
Born: Charleston, South
Carolina, June 4, 1916
Died: Seattle, Washington,
May 19, 2009
ROBERT Furchgott was a Nobel Prize-winning American scientist whose work led to the development of Viagra. buy sildenafil online arizona He worked with the gas nitric oxide, which led to new research in cardiovascular functions.
Nitric oxide had been known as a pollutant that contributed to smog and acid rain, but research by Professor Furchgott, and others, found it was an important signal in the cardiovascular system, mediating blood pressure and blood flow.
The scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine in 1998 for providing the first proof that a gas can perform important biochemical functions in the body.
The discovery of the ability of nitric oxide, a colourless and odourless gas, to enlarge blood vessels was a factor in the development of Pfizer Inc's anti-impotency drug sildenafil, which it markets under the name Viagra.
In 1998, when the US Food and Drug Administration approved the little blue pill as a treatment for erectile dysfunction, some 35 million men started taking the drug around the world.
As a child, Robert Francis Furchgott developed an early interest in birds and shells after attending nature study classes and field trips around the coastal city of Charleston.
Within the first couple of years of high school, he knew he wanted to be a scientist. His parents encouraged him with presents of chemistry sets and a small microscope. During his junior and senior years, he worked as a lab assistant in research on the physical chemistry of solutions of cellulose.
He went on to earn a chemistry degree from the University of North Carolina in 1937 and a doctorate in biochemistry from Northwestern University in 1940. He was faculty member of Washington University School of Medicine from 1949 to 1956.
From 1956 to 1988, he was professor of pharmacology at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Centre.
He was chairman of Downstate's pharmacology department from 1956 until 1982 and from 1989 to 2004, was a professor of pharmacology at the University of Miami School of Medicine.
Along with the Nobel Prize he received in 1998, Professor Furchgott also received a Gairdner Foundation International Award for his ground-breaking discoveries (1991) and the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1996), the latter with Ferid Murad.
Professor Furchgott, lived in Brooklyn and was married to Lenore Mandelbaum from 1941 until she died aged 68.
They had three daughters -- Jane, Susan and Terry.
He later married Margaret Gallagher Roth, who predeceased him. He served as a professor emeritus at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Centre.
In 2008, he moved to Seattle's Ravenna neighbourhood.
He is survived by his three daughters, four grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
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Senior's Breakfast Special

We went to breakfast at a restaurant where the "seniors' special" was two eggs, bacon, hash browns & toast for $1.99.

"Sounds good," my wife said. "But I don't want the eggs."

"Then, I'll have to charge you two dollars & forty-nine cents because you're ordering a la carte," the waitress warned her.

"You mean I'd have to pay for not taking the eggs?" my wife asked incredulously.

"Yes!!" stated the waitress.

"I'll take the special then." my wife said.

"How do you want your eggs?" the waitress asked.

"Raw and in the shell," my wife replied.
She took the two eggs home.

Thought..........

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Here boy

When I was about 17 two friends and I returned to my parents house from the pub.

They went into the kitchen to get some toast and I went to see if anyone was still up, luckily my parents had gone to bed.

So I came down and saw they were talking and eating with their back to me, and our dog was standing next to them looking my direction. I decided to give them a shock by jumping into the kitchen with my pants down and farting on the dogs head (seemed like a good idea at the time).

Down came my trousers. I leapt into the kitchen shouting 'AH HA' to get their attention, attempted to fart on the dog, but followed through. The dogs head was covered in shit and I had it running down my legs.

Suffice to say everyone I had ever met was told about this, and I'm still waiting for a knock on the door from the RSPCA.