Portrait of Nobel laureate unveiled
The eminent Scottish pharmacologist Professor Sir James
Black, whose many honours and awards include honorary fellowship of the
Royal Pharmaceutical Society, has received yet another accolade with the
unveiling of a portrait in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
Sir James was joint winner of the 1988 Nobel prize
in physiology or medicine for his contributions to the discovery of “important
principles in drug treatment”. He is best known for developing the first
clinically useful beta-blocker, propranolol, and the first clinically
useful H2-antagonist, cimetidine.
The portrait, by Glasgow-based artist George Devlin,
is the first in a series of commissions of people involved in medical
and scientific research. Further commissions are to be announced later
in the year.
Guests at the unveiling on 5 October included representatives
of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in Scotland.
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