death_date death_place religion birth_place citizenship image_size nationality ethnicity name field work_institutions birth_date signature spouse prizes image article_title birth_name
19 may 2009 seattle , washington jewish charleston , south carolina american 220px united states ashkenazi jewish robert f. furchgott biochemistry suny washington university in st. louis 1949 & ndash ; 1956 downstate cornell university 1940 & ndash ; 1949 medical center 1956 & ndash ; 2009 june 4 , 1916 robert f. furchgott.jpg lenore her death ; 3 children -rrb- margaret gallagher roth -lrb- mandelbaum ? & ndash ; 2006 ; her death -rrb- -lrb- 1941 & ndash ; 1983 ; nobel prize in physiology or medicine in 1998 drfurchgott.jpg robert f. furchgott
 robert francis furchgott
robert f. furchgott

robert francis furchgott -lrb- june 4 , 1916 -- may 19 , 2009 -rrb- was a nobel prize-winning american biochemist who contributed to the discovery of nitric oxide as a transient cellular signal in mammalian systems .
