Ernest Noble

{{short description|Alcoholism researcher}}

Ernest Pascal Noble (died October 17, 2017) was Pike Professor of Alcohol Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. He also served as the director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism from 1976 to 1978.{{Cite web |url=https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/news-events/news-noteworthy/memoriam-ernest-noble-md-phd-former-niaaa-director |title=In Memoriam: Dr. Ernest Noble |date=2017-11-03 |website=National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism |language=en |access-date=2018-07-12}}

With Sujata Tewari he demonstrated that chronic alcohol consumption inhibits protein metabolism in the brains of mice.{{Cite journal|title = Protein and Ribonucleic Acid Metabolism in Brains of Mice Following Chronic Alcohol Consumption*|journal = Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences|date = 1973-04-01|issn = 1749-6632|pages = 333–345|volume = 215|issue = 1|doi = 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1973.tb28287.x|language = en|first1 = Ernest P.|last1 = Noble|first2 = Sujata|last2 = Tewari|pmid = 4513678|bibcode = 1973NYASA.215..333N|s2cid = 45107505}}{{Cite web|url = http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb987008v1;NAAN=13030&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00073&toc.depth=1&toc.id=&brand=calisphere|title = Sujata Tewari|date = |access-date = |website = University of California: In Memoriam 2001|publisher = |last = Gottschalk|first = Louis A.}}

He was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 1974.{{Cite web |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/ernest-noble/ |title=Ernest Noble |website=Guggenheim Foundation |access-date=2018-07-12}}