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Abstract Volume 24 (2019) pp 93-94

Paul Greengard (1925–2019), An Obituary-Tribute

George B. Kauffman*

Department of Chemistry, California State University, Fresno, Fresno, CA 93740-8034, georgek@mail.fresnostate.edu

Published: 9 August 2019

Abstract. Paul Greengard, a neuroscientist who had worked at the Rockefeller University in New York City died there on April 13, 2019 at the age of 93. He was married three times and divorced twice. His survivors include sculptor Ursula von Rydingsvard; three children, Claude Greengard, Leslie Greengard, and Ursula Anne von Rydingsvard; and sister Linda Greengard. Greengard had shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Eric Richard Kandel and Arvid Carlsson “for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system.” Greengard did not learn about his mother’s death upon his birth until he was 20 years old. A strong advocate of gender equality in science, he used his entire Nobel Prize award of $400,000 to create an annual award in his mother’s honor, the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, to recognize outstanding achievements of women scientists.

Key Words: Chemistry and History; Biography; Chemistry, Nobel Prize, Neuroscience, Marriage, Divorce, Jews, Christians, Sculptress, Electronics Technician, World War II, G. I. Bill, Nuclear Weapons, Biophysics, Biochemistry, Brain Diseases, Neurotransmitters, Unusual Use of Nobel Prize Funds, Cellular Function of Neurons

(*) Corresponding author. (E-mail: georgek@mail.fresnostate.edu)

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