EDITORIAL : THUMBS UP.PROFESSOR Louis J. Ignarro of UCLA's School of Medicine, a 10-time winner of an award given by medical students there to their favorite professor, has another feather in his cap - a Nobel Prize Nobel Prize, award given for outstanding achievement in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, peace, or literature. The awards were established by the will of Alfred Nobel, who left a fund to provide annual prizes in the five areas listed above. . He was one of three Americans honored hon·or n. 1. High respect, as that shown for special merit; esteem: the honor shown to a Nobel laureate. 2. a. Good name; reputation. b. for their work in studying the role of nitric oxide nitric oxide or nitrogen monoxide, a colorless gas formed by the combustion of nitrogen and oxygen as given by the reaction: energy + N2 + O2 → 2NO; m.p. −163.6°C;; b.p. −151.8°C;. in the body. Most people tend to think of universities as teaching institutions. The prize won by Ignarro is a reminder that universities also support important research. |
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