Background
MacLean, Paul Donald was born on May 1, 1913 in Phelps, New York, United States. Son of Charles Chalmers and Elizabeth (Dreyfus) MacLachlan.
Government institute medical research official
MacLean, Paul Donald was born on May 1, 1913 in Phelps, New York, United States. Son of Charles Chalmers and Elizabeth (Dreyfus) MacLachlan.
Bachelor, Yale University, 1935. Postgraduate, University Edinburgh, Scotland, 1936. Doctor of Medicine cum laude, Yale University, 1940.
Doctor of Science (honorary), State University of New York, Binghamton, 1986.
Intern in medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 1940-1941; assistant resident medicine, New Haven Hospital, Yale School Medicine, 1941-1942; research assistant pathology, New Haven Hospital, Yale School Medicine, 1942; assistant professor physiology, New Haven Hospital, Yale School Medicine, 1949-1951; assistant professor psychiatry, physiology and neurology, New Haven Hospital, Yale School Medicine, 1951-1953; associate professor physiology, New Haven Hospital, Yale School Medicine, 1956-1957; clinical instructor medicine, U. Washington Medical School, Seattle, 1946-1947; United States Public Health Service research fellow, Harvard University Medical School, also Massachusetts General Hospital, 1947-1949; director, Electroencephalogram laboratory New Haven Hospital, 1951-1952; associate professor psychiatry, physiology and neurology, attending physician, Grace-New Haven Hospital, 1953-1956; senior postdoctoral fellow National Science Foundation department physiology, U. Zurich, 1956-1957; chief section limbic integration and behavior, Laboratory Neurophysiology Intramural Research, National Institute of Mental Health, United States Public Health Service, Department Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland., 1957-1971; chief laboratory brain evolution and behavior, Intramural Research, Bethesda, Maryland., 1971-1985; senior research scientist, Intramural Research Program, National Institute of Mental Health, since 1985.
Emeritus trustee liberal studies.B. Leakey Foundation Served to major Medical Corps Army of the United States, 1942-1946, PTO. Member American Neurological Association, American Physiological Society, American Association Electroencephalographers, American Association Neurological Surgeons, Society Neurosci., American Association Anatomists, Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Married Alison Stokes, July 16, 1942 (deceased 2006). Children: Paul, David, Alexander, James, Alison.