Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Solomon H. Snyder
Born: December 26, 1938 (age 86)
Bio: Solomon Halbert Snyder is an American neuroscientist who is known for wide-ranging contributions to neuropharmacology and neurochemistry. He studied at Georgetown University, and has conducted the majority of his research at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Known for:
- Drugs and Pain (1986)
- Science and Psychiatry (2008)
- Madness and the brain (1974)
- Uses of marijuana (1971)