Ernest Pascal Noble (died October 17, 2017) was Pike Professor of Alcohol Studies,

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. He also served as the director of the

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from 1976 to 1978. With Sujata Tewari he demonstrated that chronic

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inhibits

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in the brains of mice. He was awarded a

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in 1974.

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