225 years of Tar Heels: Robert Furchgott

Posted Dec 24, 2018
In 1998, Robert Furchgott became the first University of North Carolina alumnus or faculty member to win a Nobel Prize. He shared the prize in the physiology or medicine category for the discovery of how the natural production of nitric oxide works in the body. Furchgott was born in 1916 in South Carolina and lived a life dedicated to science and research. (UNC.edu)

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