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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Philip Seeman papers
Source:
American College of
Neuropsychopharmacology
Creator:
Seeman, Philip
Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.1234
Physical Description:
.8 Linear Feet
(2 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1957-2005
Language of Material: Materials are in
English.
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[Identification of item], Philip Seeman Papers (Collection 1234). Louise M. Darling
Biomedical Library History and Special Collections for the Sciences, University of
California, Los Angeles.
Gift of Philip Seeman to the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP), 2005;
transfered to UCLA in 2008.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
7800609
Philip Seeman (1934- ) received his Doctorate in Medicine from McGill University in 1960
and his Ph.D. in Life Sciences, under George Emil Palade (1974 Nobel laureate in Physiology
or Medicine), at the Rockefeller University in 1966. He conducted research in the
Departments of Pharmacology and Psychiatry, University of Toronto, from 1970 onward. He
notes in his cirriculum vitae, "I have devoted my career to my 1975 discovery of the
antipyschotic receptor (now called the dopamine D2 receptor) and to scientific research on
the basis of psychosis."
Documents, including publications and unpublished papers and notes, related to Philip
Seeman.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
American College of
Neuropsychopharmacology