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I did help to set up an undergraduate course in medicinal chemistry and made progress in modelling and analysing pharmacological activity at the tissue level, my new passion.

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James Black
Age: 85 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 14
Died: 2010
Died: March 21
Cardiologist
Chemist
Inventor
Pharmacist
Pharmacologist
Physician
Scientist
University Teacher
Powderly
Kentucky
Sir James Whyte Black
James Whyte Black
Sir James Black
J. Black
J.W. Black
Courses
Modelling
Course
Tissue
Passion
Tissues
Help
Chemistry
Helping
Activity
Made
Level
Medicinal
Progress
Analysing
Levels
Undergraduate

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