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Abstract
A biography of Leo Sternbach, an inventor of benzodiazepine tranquillizers, is presented. It consists of (1) a societal desire for lifestyle pills, (2) Leo's birth in 1908 and youth, (3) education, (4) in Vienna, (5) in Zurich, (6) at Hoffmann-La Roche, Basel, (7) to the New World, (8) at Roche, Nutley NJ, (9) invention of the new drugs, (10) revolution of people's lifestyle, and (11) reward, retirement and obituary in 2005. This paper may be the first comprehensive biography of this remarkable chemist written in Japanese.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID： 17202803 DOI： 10.1248/yakushi.127.217
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Yakugaku Zasshi ISSN： 0031-6903 Impact factor: 0.302