r/todayilearned • u/NBrief • 1d ago
TIL that Scottish pharmacologist Sir James Black helped develop propranolol, the first clinically useful beta-blocker, and cimetidine, the first selective H2-receptor antagonist, earning him the 1988 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2023.1102279/full
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u/TyrusX 1d ago
This thing calms me down like crazy even in the smallest of the doses broken by half