Sir James Whyte Black born was a Scottish physician and pharmacologist. Together with Gertrude B. Elion and George H. Hitchings, he shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1988 for pioneering strategies for rational drug-design, which, in his case, led to the development of propranolol and cimetidine. Black established a Veterinary Physiology department at the University of Glasgow, where he became interested in the effects of adrenaline on the human heart. He went to work for ICI Pharmaceuticals in 1958 and, while there, developed propranolol, a beta blocker used for the treatment of heart disease. Black was also responsible for the development of cimetidine, an H2 receptor antagonist, a drug used to treat stomach ulcers. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1988, announced October 17, 1988. Sir James W. Black, Gertrude B. Elion, and George H. Hitchings, “for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment”. Sir James W. Black: born 1924, Uddingston, Scotland. Gertrude B. Elion: born 1918, New York, NY, USA. George H. Hitchings: born 1905, Hoquiam, WA, USA. Wiki link Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).