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    Sir John Robert Vane FRS (29 March 1927 – 19 November 2004) was a British pharmacologist who was instrumental in the understanding of how aspirin produces...
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  • the son of Christopher Vane, 10th Baron Barnard John Robert Vane (1927–2004), English pharmacologist Kathleen (Kitty) Vane (1891 - 1965), New Zealand...
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  • Robert "Alastair" Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 9th Marquess of Londonderry (7 September 1937 – 20 June 2012) was a British nobleman. The son of Robin Vane-Tempest-Stewart...
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    (1778–1854) Frederick William Robert Stewart, 4th Marquess of Londonderry (1805–1872) George Henry Robert Charles William Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry...
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    George Henry Robert Charles William Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry, KP (26 April 1821 – 6 November 1884), styled Viscount Seaham between 1823...
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    Sir Henry Vane (baptised 26 March 1613 – 14 June 1662), often referred to as Harry Vane and Henry Vane the Younger to distinguish him from his father,...
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    Charles Vane (c. 1680 – 29 March 1721) was an English pirate who operated in the Bahamas during the end of the Golden Age of Piracy. Vane was likely born...
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  • Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1982 (with Bengt I. Samuelsson and John Robert Vane) Pehr Edman (1916–1977), chemist (Med. dr 1946). Cf. Edman degradation...
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    Edward Charles Stewart Robert Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 8th Marquess of Londonderry, DL (18 November 1902 – 17 October 1955), styled Lord Stewart until 1915...
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    Look up weather vane in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A wind vane, weather vane, or weathercock is an instrument used for showing the direction of the...
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    Lady Frances Vane, wife of John Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough, she is the great-grandmother of Sir Winston Churchill. George Henry Robert Charles William...
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    2024) was a Swedish biochemist. He shared with Sune K. Bergström and John R. Vane the 1982 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discoveries concerning...
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    Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, KG, GCB, GCH, PC (born Charles William Stewart; 1778–1854) was an Anglo-Irish nobleman, a British soldier...
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    with aspirin anhydrate in 15% weight. In 1971, British pharmacologist John Robert Vane, then employed by the Royal College of Surgeons in London, showed aspirin...
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  • Golding, Literature, 1983 Aaron Klug, born in Lithuania, Chemistry, 1982 John Robert Vane, Physiology or Medicine, 1982 Elias Canetti, born in Bulgaria, Literature...
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    (Imperial College Press, London, 2002, p. 562). Moncada, S. (2006). "Sir John Robert Vane. 29 March 1927 -- 19 November 2004: Elected FRS 1974" (PDF). Biographical...
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  • 1982: Sune Karl Bergström (b 1916); Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson (b 1934); John Robert Vane (b 1927)". Lancet. 354 (9193): 1914. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(05)76884-7...
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    his name to Vane-Tempest when he inherited from his uncle John Tempest, Jr., in 1793. He was the son and heir of Reverend Sir Henry Vane, 1st Baronet...
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    Anne Vane (17 September 1710 – 27 March 1736), also known as "the Hon. Mrs. Vane," was a maid of honour to Caroline of Ansbach and mistress to Caroline's...
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    John Vane (16 June 1842 – 30 January 1906) was an Australian bushranger who joined with the John Gilbert's gang for a short period during 1863. He rode...
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  • pathology John Robert Vane – Nobel Prize winner George F. Abercrombie – British GP, cofounder of the Royal College of General Practitioners John Abernethy...
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    William Henry Vane, 1st Duke of Cleveland, KG (27 July 1766 – 29 January 1842), styled Viscount Barnard until 1792 and known as The Earl of Darlington...
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  • Harriet Deborah Vane, later Lady Peter Wimsey, is a fictional character in the works of British writer Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) and the sequels by...
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    Charles Vane in September 1718 conflict with the court records of both Charles Vane and Robert Deal, his quartermaster. The Tryals of Captain John Rackam...
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    Edith Helen Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry, DBE (née Chaplin; 3 December 1878 – 23 April 1959) was a noted and influential society hostess...
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  • restaurants are extremely popular throughout Britain and abroad. Sir John Robert Vane, winner of a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1982 for his...
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  • Bergström and Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson and British biochemist Sir John Robert Vane were able to understand the function and chemical formation of Prostanoids:...
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  • November – David Stanley Evans, astronomer (born 1916) 19 November – John Robert Vane, pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine...
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  • his younger brother Raby Vane. Henry Vane, 2nd Earl of Darlington had chosen to place his interest behind Frederick and Robert Shafto, although the latter...
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  • Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science. Retrieved 3 May 2020. "Sir John Robert Vane", KNAW Historisch Ledenbestand (Digitaal Wetenschapshistorisch Centrum)...
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