Background
Murray Jarvik was born in New York City on June 1, 1923. He was the son of Minnie (Haas) and Jacob Jarvik, an upholsterer.
educator Pharmacologist psychiatrist
Murray Jarvik was born in New York City on June 1, 1923. He was the son of Minnie (Haas) and Jacob Jarvik, an upholsterer.
Bachelor of Science, City College of New York, 1944; Master of Arts, University of California at Los Angeles, 1945; Doctor of Medicine University of California, San Francisco, 1951; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1952.
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. Murray Jarvik began research into the absorption of tobacco contents through the skin and its effects on the human body. His initial exploration into this field began by studying farmers and farmhands in the American South who harvest tobacco by hand for a living.
Instead, Jarvik and Rose began testing the effects of absorption of tobacco contents on themselves.
The effects of the tobacco was immediately measurable. In an interview with University of California, Los Angeles Magazine, Jarvik remembered, "We put the tobacco on our skin and waited to see what would happen.
Our heart rates increased, adrenaline began pumping, all the things that happen to smokers."
Jarvik and Rose"s research led to their invention of the nicotine patch in the early 1990s. The nicotine patch is a transdermal patch that delivers nicotine directly through the skin and into to the body to alleviate the urge to smoke and, hopefully, ultimately quit smoking.
(Rose now serves as the director of the Center for Nicotine and Smoking Cessation Research at Duke University)
The nicotine patch became available by prescription for smoking cessation in the United States in 1992.
The Food and Drug Administration (Food and Drug Administration) approved its sale as an over-the-counter treatment in 1996. Murray Jarvik died at his home in Santa Monica, California, on May 8, 2008, at the age of 84 from a pulmonary edema from congestive heart failure.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York Academy of Sciences, American Psychological Association (division president 1966-1968). Member American College Neuropsychopharmacology, Collegium Internatonale Neuro-Psychopharmacologium, International Brain Research Organization, American Psychopath. Association, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Married Lissy Jarvik, December 19, 1954. Children: Laurence Ariel, Jeffrey Gil.