caption death_date death_place work_institution birth_place citizenship nationality ethnicity field birth_date known_for residence article_title name alma_mater
courtesy of the national library of medicine . 3 march 2002 nijmegen catholic university of nijmegen wijk bij duurstede dutch dutch white dutch pharmacology 29 january 1918 receptor theory and drug stereochemistry nijmegen everhardus jacobus ariëns
 everhardus jacobus ariëns university of utrecht
everhardus jacobus ariëns

everhardus jacobus ariëns -lrb- 29 january 1918 -- 3 march 2002 -rrb- was a dutch pharmacologist and professor at the catholic university of nijmegen -lrb- now radboud university nijmegen -rrb- .
he made important contributions to the function of receptors and the mathematical description of ligand -- receptor interactions -lrb- receptor theory -rrb- .
moreover everhardus ariëns was the initiator for the collection of stereochemistry in drug development and spearheading the development of enantiopure drugs .
