Sir John Robert Vane (March 29, 1927 - November 19, 2004) was a British pharmacologist. His father was the son of Jewish 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. Wikipedia
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