a very private man who was averse to publicity and was horrified to discover he had won the Nobel Prize. Black died, aged 85, on the morning of 22 March 2010 after a long illness. His death was announced by the University of Dundee, where Black served as Chancellor from 1992 to 2006. His funeral was held on 29 March at St. Columba's Church, London. He is buried at the Ardclach cemetery, a parish established in 1655, near Nairn, Scotland. Upon hearing of Black's death, Professor Pete Downes, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dundee said Black "was a great scientist, but he was also a great man to know" while the BBC said he was "hailed as one of the great Scottish scientists of the 20th Century". He was described by The Daily Telegraph as the man who earned the most for the pharmaceutical industry through his drug development, though he received little personal financial gain from his work. Shortly after his death the Bute Medical School of the University of St Andrews, where Black had studied for his initial degree in medicine, announced that an honorary 'Sir James Black Chair of Medicine' would be created. In September 2010 the first Chair of Medicine at the University was given to Professor Stephen H Gillespie MD, DSc, FRCP (Edin), FRC Path, who left his post as Professor of Medical Microbiology at UCL. References External links 1924 births 2010 deaths Academics of King's College London Academics of the University of Glasgow Academics of University College London Alumni of the University of Dundee Alumni of the University of St Andrews British Nobel laureates British cardiologists Chancellors of the University of Dundee Fellows of King's College London Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Imperial Chemical Industries people Knights Bachelor Members of the Order of Merit Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine People from Cowdenbeath People from Uddingston Royal Medal winners Scottish Baptists Scottish biologists Scottish inventors 20th-century Scottish medical doctors Scottish Nobel laureates Scottish pharmacologists Wolf Prize in Medicine laureates 20th-century Scottish scientists 21st-century Scottish scientists People educated at Beath High School Recipients of the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award Deaths from prostate cancer Deaths from cancer in England