Black, a former resident of Lochgelly, was educated at Beath High School, Cowdenbeath, Fife, Scotland, and the University of St Andrews, Fife, where he studied medicine, spending time in Dundee (where all the clinical medical activity of St Andrews' University took place until 1967).
Sir JamesBlack contributed to basic scientific and clinical knowledge in cardiology, both as a physician and as a basic scientist.
Sir James is a former Chancellor of the University of Dundee.
JamesBlack was born in Hackensack, New Jersey on 1 May 1800.
In 1838 Black's wife Anne died and in 1839, while Black was in bed from an illness, his father-in-law Shaw broke into Black's house and brutally attacked him with a club.
Black went north to seek medical advice where his eyes were further damaged by the inept ministrations of a Cincinnati, Ohio, physician.
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