Murray E. Jarvik
1923-2008
Psychopharmacologist who studied LSD in Harold Abramson’s group in the 1950s and later, at UCLA, co-invented the nicotine patch.
Murray Elias Jarvik was among the first scientists to study the effects of LSD on memory and behavior, working with Harold Abramson and Conan Kornetsky at Mount Sinai in the 1950s. Margaret Mead names him in Margaret Mead’s LSD memo, typing his name as “Jarvok.”
At UCLA he helped establish nicotine research, arguing in 1970 that nicotine drives addiction to cigarettes, and he later co-invented the nicotine patch.
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- “Murray E. Jarvik, 84, UCLA pharmacologist, nicotine patch inventor,” UCLA Health, May 2008.
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