Dr. James W. Black, a Scottish pharmacologist whose discovery of beta blockers and another class of drugs extended the lives of millions of people with heart and stomach disorders and earned him a ...

lunched on a lager and a greasy burger—has reason to be grateful to Sir James Black. For Sir James invented the little white or pink capsule of the beta-blocker propranolol which, taken every ...

Above all I shall remember Sir James Black for his delicious chuckle. James Whyte Black, pharmacologist: born Uddingston, South Lanarkshire 14 June 1924; Lecturer in Physiology, University of ...

James Black, Jim to his many friends and ... he had to teach himself what he has termed 'analytical pharmacology'. Black, who died on 22 March, graduated in medicine from the University of St ...

SIR James Whyte Black is an eminent pharmacologist who, along with George H. Hitchings and Gertrude B. Elion, received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1988 for his development of two ...

Sir James Black, OM, the pharmacologist who died on March 22 aged 85, developed not one but two of the world's best-selling classes of prescription drugs – beta-blockers, effective against heart ...