Making history - audio
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English - March 28, 2013 10:11 - 11 minutes - 12.8 MB VideoCourses Education Society & Culture alumni nottingham university university of nottingham Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this interview we meet the man responsible for the discovery of one of the world's biggest selling painkillers, Ibuprofen.
Dr Stewart Adams, a University of Nottingham alumnus, talks about how his original search for a cure for rheumatoid arthritis led to the discovery of Ibuprofen, and how years of painstaking research were rewarded with one of the world's most significant pharmacological finds.
Dr Adams was recently made an honorary graduate of the University for his remarkable work an