Alfred Gilman (sr.)
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See also Alfred G. Gilman
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Alfred Gilman (February 5, 1908-January 13, 1984) was an Americanpharmacologist
at Yale University
, School of Medicine, later, at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and Albert Einstein College of Medicine
. He published the classic textbook The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics with his colleagueLouis S. Goodman in 1941. He was a member of U.S. National Academy of Science.
His father owned a music store in Bridgeport, Connecticut
, and he could play almost any musical instrument and frequently did so at neighborhood parties. Unlike his father, however, Alfred Gilman turned to science, receiving his Ph.D. in Physiological Chemistry from Yale in 1931 for "Chemical and Physiological Investigations on Canine Gastric Secretion". He then joined the faculty of the Department of Pharmacology at the Yale Medical School, where he and Louis S. Goodman, a young M.D., became colleagues and close friends. He is father of Alfred G. Gilman
, Nobel winning pharmacologist.
The textbook has been used throughout the world since first publication.
Alfred G. Gilman
Alfred Goodman Gilman is an American pharmacologist and biochemist. He shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Martin Rodbell for their discoveries regarding G-proteins....
.
Pharmacology
Pharmacology is the branch of medicine and biology concerned with the study of drug action. More specifically, it is the study of the interactions that occur between a living organism and chemicals that affect normal or abnormal biochemical function...
at Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
, School of Medicine, later, at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine is a graduate school of Yeshiva University. It is a not-for-profit, private, nonsectarian medical school located on the Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus in the Morris Park neighborhood of the borough of the Bronx of New York City...
. He published the classic textbook The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics with his colleagueLouis S. Goodman in 1941. He was a member of U.S. National Academy of Science.
His father owned a music store in Bridgeport, Connecticut
Bridgeport, Connecticut
Bridgeport is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. Located in Fairfield County, the city had an estimated population of 144,229 at the 2010 United States Census and is the core of the Greater Bridgeport area...
, and he could play almost any musical instrument and frequently did so at neighborhood parties. Unlike his father, however, Alfred Gilman turned to science, receiving his Ph.D. in Physiological Chemistry from Yale in 1931 for "Chemical and Physiological Investigations on Canine Gastric Secretion". He then joined the faculty of the Department of Pharmacology at the Yale Medical School, where he and Louis S. Goodman, a young M.D., became colleagues and close friends. He is father of Alfred G. Gilman
Alfred G. Gilman
Alfred Goodman Gilman is an American pharmacologist and biochemist. He shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Martin Rodbell for their discoveries regarding G-proteins....
, Nobel winning pharmacologist.
The textbook has been used throughout the world since first publication.