Scottish Nobel laureate who pioneered the rational design of drugs and, in the process, developed the first widely used drugs for treating heart disease and blocking stomach acid production

nobel medicine laureate 1988

Medicinal chemist, integral part in development of cimetidine. Listed as inventor or co-inventor of 160+ US patents as well as authored & co-authored over 260 scientific papers. Was inducted into the National Inventor's HOF for his work on cimetidine