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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

James Black 1823-93, American temperance leader. A Pennsylvania lawyer, he was active in state and national temperance work. His plan for a National Publication House was adopted by the National Temperance Convention (1865). In 1872, as presidential nominee of the Prohibition party, he gained some 5,000 votes. Author not available, BLACK, JAMES. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more

Sir James (Whyte) Black
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Sir James Black
1924-, Scottish pharmacologist, M.D. Univ. of St. Andrews, 1946. A professor at Kings College Medical School, he shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with George Hitchings and Gertrude Elion for his contributions to the area of drug treatment. He discovered important drugs that Read more

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