Person Axelrod; Julius (1912 - 2004) Axelrod Julius 1912 - 2004 American Male Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York, USA 30/05/1912 19120530 Rockville, Maryland, USA 29/12/2004 20041229

Neurochemist Education: Public schools in New York including Seward Park High School; City College, New York, graduated with degree in Chemistry and Biology, 1933, Master's degree in Chemistry, New York University (1942); PhD, George Washington University (1955) Career: Laboratory Assistant, New York University Medical School (1933-1935); Chemist, Laboratory of Industrial Hygiene, New York City Public Health Department (1935-1946), lost his left eye when a bottle of ammonia exploded (1938); Research Associate, Research Division, Goldwater Memorial Hospital (1946-1949); Associate Chemist, Section on Pharmacology, Laboratory of Clinical Science, National Institute of Mental Health, Maryland (1949-1950), Senior Chemist (1953-1955), head of section on pharmacology, Laboratory of Clinical Science, National Institute of Mental Health (1955-1984); Scientist Emeritus, National Institutes of Health, Maryland (1996-2004) Medals and prizes: Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) 1970 Son of Isadore and Molly Axelrod, Jewish immigrants from Galician Poland (1906); married (1935) Sally Taub (d 1992) Foreign Member 26/04/1979 66 Obituaries: Obituaries in Telegraph (3 January 2005); Nature (10 February 2005) Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2006 vol 52 pp 1-13, plate, by Leslie Iversen References: Digitized papers available at http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/HH/ International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 30 May 1912 - NA4198 21/11/2001 Andyg pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes 74c76460-ef42-4637-b05c-73b7db4c6382