Robert F. Furchgott belongs to the record of science as a figure whose work outlasted the moment that produced it.
The record lists Robert F. Furchgott as American biochemist (1916-2009).
Robert F. Furchgott was born in 1916. His recorded nationality is the United States. He was educated at University of South Carolina and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
Robert F. Furchgott is described as biochemist, physician and pharmacist.
Results that survive re-examination become the floor of a discipline.
His recorded fields of work are biology and biochemistry.
Formal recognition came in the shape of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1996) and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1998).
That the work was done from the United States matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Death came in 2009, at 93. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
Achievements
- Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research — 1996
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1998
- Educated at University of South Carolina, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Northwestern University
- Worked as biochemist, physician and pharmacist
