Background
Buchwald was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1924, as eldest child of Nellie and Sol Buchwald.
Buchwald was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1924, as eldest child of Nellie and Sol Buchwald.
He received his Bachelor of Arts in chemistry at University of Miami in Florida in 1946, and his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Minnesota in 1953 in neuroanatomy and neurophysiology.
Buchwald was internationally recognized for his pioneering research on the functions of the basal ganglia, an area of the brain closely associated with neurological diseases like Parkinson"s disease. Buchwald started working as an anatomy instructor at Tulane University Medical School in 1953. In 1957 he returned to the University of California, Los Angeles to work at the new Brain Research Institute.
He became an associate professor in the Department of Anatomy in 1961 and later was promoted to professor and joined the Department of Psychiatry in 1970.
Buchwald was the Director of the University of California, Los Angeles Mental Retardation Research Center for more than 40 years. He became the Associate Director for Research in 1971 and Director of the University of California, Los Angeles Mental Retardation Research Center in 1973, a position he held until 1993.
Buchwald died July 14 in 2006 in Los Angeles, California.
End of 1950s he had been among the first members of the Society for General Systems Research.