Obituary: Paul Greengard opened new pathways for neurological research and women in science
A contrarian streak helped Paul Greengard identify a flaw in the assumptions underpinning brain research in the young Atomic Age.
Most researchers in the 1950s believed that transmissions between cells in the brain were purely electrical. Mr. Greengard, who died on April 13 at the age of 93, demonstrated in studies over 15 years that neurons in fact communicate mainly via a more subtle biochemical process now known as slow synaptic transmission.
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