Theodore Sourkes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian biochemist and chemist (1919-2015)
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Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
About Theodore Sourkes
- Theodore Lionel Sourkes, (February 21, 1919 – January 17, 2015) was a Canadian biochemist and neuropsychopharmacologist who helped advance the treatment of Parkinson's disease and hypertension.Born in Montreal, Quebec, Sourkes received a Bachelor of Science degree in Nutritional Sciences from McGill University in 1939.
- Unable to fight in Canadian Army during World War II due to his poor eyesight, he worked in a chemical engineering factory in Toronto during the war.
- After the war, he received a Master of Science degree from McGill studying under Earle Wilcox Crampton.
- He received a Ph.D.
- from Cornell University in 1948 working with James B.
- Sumner.
- He worked briefly as assistant professor in pharmacology at Georgetown University before joining the Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research.
- While there, he helped in the development of a-methyldopa, an antihypertensive drug.
- In 1953, he returned to McGill University in the Department of Psychiatry where he stayed for the rest of his career.He died of pneumonia on January 17, 2015 at the Montreal General Hospital.
- He was buried at the Montreal Workers' Circle section of the Baron de Hirsch Cemetery, Montreal.
- "His archives are held at McGill University in the Osler Library of the History of Medicine
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