Arthur Nobile (May 6, 1920 in

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prednisone and

prednisolone Prednisolone is a steroid medication used to treat certain types of allergies, inflammatory conditions, autoimmune disorders, and cancers. Some of these conditions include adrenocortical insufficiency, high blood calcium, rheumatoid arthrit ...

Education

Nobile studied at the

University of Southern California The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in C ...

before he earned his B.S. degree from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

Career

Nobile's work with the steroid drugs prednisone and prednisolone is widely considered one of the largest advances in 20th century medicine.

References

1920 births 2004 deaths University of California, Berkeley alumni University of Southern California alumni American biologists 20th-century biologists {{US-biologist-stub