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Scottish
-
Scientist
June 14
, 1924 -
March 22
, 2010
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 Black
Principles
,
Event
,
Teaching
,
Course
Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.
James Black
Music
,
Mathematics
,
School
,
Two
,
Study
The outcome, the fourth in an issue of five boys born into a staunch Baptist home, meant that from the beginning I was taught to be respectful of others no less than myself, influencing ever since both my political and administrative attitudes.
James Black
Home
,
Myself
,
Beginning
,
Born
,
Political
Myocardial oxygen consumption is determined by the work of the heart and is a function of arterial blood pressure and heart rate.
James Black
Work
,
Heart
,
Pressure
,
Blood
,
Determined
All I ever promised was that I was sure I could develop a new pharmacological agent which might answer a physiological question. Any utility would be implicit in that answer.
James Black
New
,
Question
,
Answer
,
Utility
,
Sure
During my six years with them Dr Garnet Davey (subsequently Research Director) constantly supported me and, I have no doubt, fought many battles on my behalf to keep the initially controversial programme going.
James Black
Research
,
Me
,
Doubt
,
Director
,
Years
Half-jokingly, I asked what was wrong with me. So we made a deal: I would run his biological research provided I had a free hand to run my new project.
James Black
Research
,
Me
,
Free
,
Run
,
New
,
Project
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.
James Black
Passion
,
Progress
,
Help
,
New
,
Chemistry
I had found myself a new mission - and once more my recurring dilemma between corporate commercial needs and personal scientific ambitions was solved unexpectedly.
James Black
Myself
,
Mission
,
New
,
Personal
,
More
I met Hilary Vaughan at a Student Ball in 1944 and we married in the summer of 1946, as soon as I graduated.
James Black
Summer
,
Student
,
Ball
,
Married
,
Soon
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 Black
Love
,
Father
,
Music
,
Me
,
Singing
,
Place
The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London.
James Black
Opportunity
,
King
,
College
,
Research
,
Me
We paid off our debts, we learned some, made friends and returned in 1950 with a larger view of life. I had, however, no home, no income of any kind and no prospects whatsoever.
James Black
Life
,
Home
,
Friends
,
View
,
Kind
,
Paid
I have never wanted to check out the family folklore that we could be traced back to a dominie at the hamlet of Balquhidder in the Scottish highlands.
James Black
Family
,
Back
,
Never
,
Check
,
Out
,
Could
In research, I wanted to establish the medicinal chemistry/bioassay conjugation as an academic pursuit, as exciting to the imagination as astrophysics or molecular biology.
James Black
Imagination
,
Research
,
Biology
,
Exciting
Clinically, angina pectoris was known to be precipitated by anxiety and emotion just as well as by exercise.
James Black
Anxiety
,
Exercise
,
Emotion
,
Just
,
Well
As analytical pharmacologists, what we are allowed to see of a new molecule's properties is totally dependent on the techniques of bioassay we use.
James Black
New
,
See
,
Analytical
,
Dependent
,
Use
Analytical pharmacology has got an important and exciting future.
James Black
Future
,
Important
,
Analytical
,
Got
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