Background
SOKOLOFF, Louis was born on October 14, 1921 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Morris and Goldie Sokoloff.
SOKOLOFF, Louis was born on October 14, 1921 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Morris and Goldie Sokoloff.
Bachelor, University Pennsylvania, 1943. Doctor of Medicine, University Pennsylvania, 1946. Doctor of Medicine (honorary), University Lund, Sweden, 1980.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Yeshiva U, New York, 1982. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Glasgow, United Kingdom, 1989. Doctor of Science (honorary), Philipps University Marburg, Germany, 1990.
Doctor of Medicine (honorary), University Rome, 1992. Doctor of Science (honorary), Georgetown University, Washington, 1992. Doctor of Science (honorary), Michigan State University, Lansing, 1993.
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1997.
Intern Philadelphia General Hospital, 1946-1947. Research fellow in physiology University Pennsylvania Graduate School Medicine, 1949-1951, instructor, then associate, 1951-1956. Associate chief, then chief section cerebral metabolism National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 1953-1968, chief laboratory cerebral metabolism, 1968—2004, emeritus scientist, since 2004.
Private 1st class United States Army, 1943-1946, captain MC United States Army, 1947-1949.
Chief editor Journal Neurochemistry, 1974-1978.
Member National Academy of Sciences, Institute Medicine (senior ), American Physiological Society, Association Research Nervous and Mental Diseases, American Biophysics Society, American Neurological Association, American Philosophical Society, American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Society Biological Chemists, American Society Neurochemistry, International Society Neurochemistry, International Society Cereb Blood Flow & Metab.
Music, tennis, literature, history.
Married Betty Jane Kaiser in 1947.