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James W. Black
My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.
James W. Black
Learning that Garry's research student was showing that iodoacetate destroyed the intestinal epithelium, I wondered if iodoacetate was a general poison. What did it do to blood pressure, for example?
James W. Black
John Wyllie, surgeon from University College London, contributed the last critical piece in a sucessful mission.
James W. Black
Intellectually she was the most exciting person I have ever known and, quite simply, the mainspring of my life until she died in 1986.
James W. Black
In the cold, forbidding, greyness of St Andrews - with its dedication to 'causes purely spiritual and intellectual, to religion and learning' (Andrew Lang) - I learned, for the first time, the joys of substituting hard, disciplined study for the indulgence of day-dreaming.
James W. Black
In teaching, I wanted to offer a general pharmacology course based on chemical principles, biochemical classification and mathematical modelling. In the event I achieved neither of my ambitions.
James W. Black
I was suffering from withdrawal symptoms from lack of a chemical collaboration. Thus, I eagerly accepted John Vane's invitation to join the Wellcome Foundation.
James W. Black
I was now totally committed to arranging marriages between bioassay and medicinal chemistry. Obvious candidates existed, such as 5-hydroxytryptamine, but other shadowy ideas were lurking about in my imagination.
James W. Black
I was convinced that the histamine antagonists of the day were analogous to the alpha-receptor antagonists and that the equivalent of a beta-receptor antagonist was needed to block, for example, histamine-stimulated acid secretion.
James W. Black
I was awarded the Patrick Hamilton Residential Scholarship, mercifully unaware at the time that the family budget couldn't otherwise have stretched to yet another university student.