# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/louis-ignarro
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:39:56.328Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/louis-ignarro"
name: "Louis Ignarro"
slug: "louis-ignarro"
description: "Louis Joseph Ignarro is an American pharmacologist. For demonstrating the signaling properties of nitric oxide, he was co-recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Robert F. Furchgott and Ferid Murad."
tagline: "American physiologist"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
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birthDate: "1941-05-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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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