Bernard Beryl Brodie, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Bernard Beryl Brodie

American biochemist

Date of Birth: 07-Aug-1907

Place of Birth: Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1989

Profession: chemist, university teacher, pharmacologist, biochemist

Nationality: United States, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Bernard Beryl Brodie (7 August 1907 – 28 February 1989), a leading researcher on drug therapy, is considered by many to be the founder of modern pharmacology and brought the field to prominence in the 1940s and 1950s.
He was a major figure in the field of drug metabolism, the study of how drugs interact in the body and how they are absorbed.
A member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, Brodie was a founder and former chief of the Laboratory of Chemical Pharmacology at the National Heart Institute of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.