Obituaries

Please celebrate the lives and accomplishments of our distinguished members. The obituaries are posted alphabetically and can be found within the tabs below.

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Toni S. Shippenberg, 1955-2012 (PDF 84Kb)

Toni Shippenberg’s contributions to the fields of Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology over the years were outstanding and are reflected by the high esteem she was held in by colleagues within NIH as well as throughout the United States and abroad.

Andrew C. Leon, 1951-2012 (PDF 102Kb)

Andy Leon spent years training new investigators and was generous with his time and wise advice. His intellectual powers were impressive. Yet, when he helped young investigators who were struggling to design a study or interpret statistics, he would gently correct them, never criticizing or humiliating them. He would say, “Well, I have a slightly different take on that and you may want to consider approaching the problem this way”.

Edward G. Jones, 1939-2011 (PDF 192Kb)

Ted Jones distinguished himself in many areas of neuroscience. He was unquestionably the world authority on the Thalamus, producing a remarkable two-volume book filled with his own photomicrographs and illustrations. He was a pioneer of the study of cortico-cortical circuitry and the subpopulations of neurons that comprise local cortical circuits and of neuroplasticity in the cortex and thalamus that helped define the field.

Samuel C. Kaim, 1911-2012 (PDF 39Kb)

As the first director of an Alcoholism Service in the US Department of Veterans Affairs, Sam Kaim helped to compel armed forces personnel to recognize the significance of opioid dependence in Vietnam, leading a charge for expansion of his office in 1970 to become the Alcohol and Drug Dependence Services.

Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado, 1915-2011 (PDF 145Kb)

Described as “a technological wizard”, Jose Delgado, invented the “stimoceiver”; implanted electrodes which established two way communications with the brain in mobile animals allowing Jose to stimulate different regions, producing changes in affect and behavior.

Stephen G. Holtzman, 1944 - 2011 (PDF 167Kb)

Steve Holzman was a pioneer in the use of drug discrimination procedures to investigate the pharmacological properties of opioids. His scientific publications in the 1970s-1990s contributed significantly to the widespread adoption of drug discrimination methodology to study drug-receptor interactions in behaving rodents and non-human primates; this model continues to play a key role in the preclinical development of new drugs for use in psychiatry and drug and alcohol dependence.

Arthur Yuwiler, 1927-2012 (PDF 57Kb)

Arthur Yuwiler once wrote that “in contrast to claims that art and science are two separate antithetical ways of approaching the world … they are, at base, the same”. He was the best example of such a synthesis, a true Renaissance-type humanist, brilliant scientist, creative artist and world traveler.

Wylie Vale, 1941-2012 (PDF 134Kb)

Wylie W. Vale Jr., an eminent endocrinologist who helped identify the hormones through which the brain governs basic bodily functions and who was involved in a combative race for the Nobel Prize.

Maressa H. Orzack, 1927-2011 (PDF 71Kb)

Originally trained as an experimental psychologist, Maressa Hecht Orzack studied with three of the founders of what is now called radical behaviorism, B.F. Skinner, W.N. Schoenfeld, and Fred S. Keller.

Joseph V. Brady, 1922-2011 (PDF 108Kb)

Obituaries in the major newspapers reported Joseph Vincent Brady, Ph.D. as the researcher who sent trained monkeys and chimpanzees into orbit to prove that outer space was safe for astronauts.

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