Background
Pfeiffer, Carl Curt was born on May 19, 1908 in Peoria, Illinois, United States. Son of Curt Richard and Minnie D. (Meiers) Pfeiffer.
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Carl Curt Pfeiffer
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Bachelor of Arts, Univercity Wisconsin, 1931; A.M., University of Wisconsin, 1933; Doctor of Philosophy, University Wisconsin, 1935; Doctor of Medicine University of Chicago, 1937.
Career
Assistant instructor pharmacology, University of Wisconsin, 1930-1935; instructor pharmacology, University of Chicago, 1936-1937, 38-40; intern, Wisconsin General Hospital, Madison, 1937-1938; associate professor pharmacology, Wayne U. College Medicine, 1940-1941; chief pharmacology, Parke Davis & Company, Detroit, 1941-1943; professor, head department pharmacology, University of Illinois College Medicine, Chicago, 1945-1954; professor, department chairman pharmacology, Emory University, 1954-1957; director division basic health science, Emory University, 1956-1960; head section psychopharmacology, Bureau Research, New Jersey Neuropsychiat. Institute, 1960-1974; director, Brain Bio Center, since 1974.
Achievements
Membership
Secretary-treasurer New Jersey Mental Health Research and Development Fund, Inc. Trustee Brain Research Foundation. Science advisory board American Schizophrenic Association Served as lieutenant United States Naval Reserve.
Charge pharmocology and toxicology Naval Medical Research Institute 1943-1945, Bethesda, Maryland. Member American Medical Association, American Society Pharmacol. and Experimental Therapeutics (president 1961-1962), American Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Chemical Society (medinial division), Academy Neurology and Biological Psychiatry, New York Academy of Sciences, Association Research Nervous and Mental Diseases, Sigma Xi.
Connections
Married Lillian H. Twenhofel, June 13, 1930. Children: Helen Nancy, Edward Carl.
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Nationality
American