Robert Furchgott, the Brooklyn-based researcher who shared a Nobel Prize for his research that led to the recognition of nitric oxide as a key signaling factor in blood vessels, has died at the age of 92.
In 1980 Furchgott first reported on endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF), which after a long and intense search by researchers was finally identified as nitric oxide. In 1992 NO was Science magazine’s molecule of the year, and in 1998 Furchgott shared the Nobel Prize with Louis Ignarro and Ferid Murad.
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