Murray Jarvik
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Murray Elias Jarvik (June 1, 1923 – May 8, 2008) was an American psychopharmacologist and academic who was among the first scientists to study d-lysergic acid, the precursor to LSD,[1] and later became the co-inventor of the nicotine patch.[2] He was a longtime professor emeritus at University of California-Los Angeles, where he taught as a professor of psychiatry and pharmacology for many years.[2]
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Born | Murray Elias Jarvik (1923-06-01)June 1, 1923 New York City, U.S. |
Died | May 8, 2008(2008-05-08) (aged 84) Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
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Known for | Co-inventor of the nicotine patch |
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Children | 2 |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Psychiatry Psychopharmacology |
Institutions | University of California, Los Angeles |
Thesis | A study of some factors involved in probability discrimination (1952) |
Doctoral advisor | Edward Chace Tolman |
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