# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ferid-murad
# Generated: 2026-09-07T17:15:44.566Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ferid-murad"
name: "Ferid Murad"
slug: "ferid-murad"
description: "Ferid Murad was an American physician and pharmacologist, His research demonstrated that nitroglycerin relaxes smooth muscle by releasing nitric oxide into the body. This work led to him sharing the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine."
tagline: "American physician and pharmacologist (1936–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ferid_Murad.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
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  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1936-09-14"
deathDate: "2023-09-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump