John Robert Vane
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John Robert Vane (March 29, 1927 - November 19, 2004) was a British biochemist. His father was the son of immigrants from Russia and his mother came from a Worcestershire farming family. He was educated at King Edward's School in Edgbaston, Birmingham, and studied Chemistry at the University of Birmingham in 1944. Vane completed a doctorate in pharmacology from Oxford University in 1953.
He held a post at the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences of the University of London in the Royal College of Surgeons of England for 18 years. He won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1982 for his work on aspirin.
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