U.S. Nobel Scientists (Robert Furchgott) last Tuesday (May 19) in Seattle, died at the age of 92. He will help the expansion of the vascular nitric oxide research, led to anti-impotence drug “Viagra”, the world has called him “the father of Viagra.”
Robert Furchgott’s research has proved that the pollution has been regarded as the gas nitric oxide, in the original play an important role in the cardiovascular system, with the expansion of blood vessels, and blood pressure and other functions. Since the study is the first time confirmed that the gas can have a biochemical effect in the body and let him share Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1998.
Robert Furchgott was born in Charleston, the United States, he likes to read science books from a young age. He got the chemical degree in biochemistry at University of North Carolina, and at Northwestern University, he obtained his doctorate.
In 1956 he went to teach in the former New York State University, has been at Cornell University and the University of Washington to engage in teaching and research work.