SIR JOHN R. VANE

1982 Nobel Laureate in Medicine

for their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances.

Born: 1927
Residence: Great Britain
Affiliation: The Wellcome Research Laboratories, Beckenham

• Prize co-recipient: Sune K. Bergstrom
• Prize co-recipient: Bengt I. Samuelsson
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