Professor Giovanni Nigro

Luisa Politano and Vincenzo Nigro

Giovanni Nigro (born 24 April 1931) died at his home in Naples on 13 October 2017. After graduating in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Naples “Federico II” in 1954 at the age of 23, he was invited to Sweden, where he had the privilege to work with Gunnar Biörck and Hugo Theorell, recipient in 1955 of the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his studies on myoglobin, cytochrome c and the respiratory chain.

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