Murray Jarvik

Male, Deceased Person

1923 – 2008

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Who was Murray Jarvik?

Murray Elias Jarvik was an American psychopharmacologist and academic who was among the first scientists to study d-lysergic acid, the precursor to LSD, and later became the co-inventor of the nicotine patch. 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.

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Born
Jun 1, 1923
New York City
Education
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • University of California, San Francisco
  • City College of New York
Employment
  • University of California, Los Angeles
Died
May 8, 2008
Santa Monica

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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