Donald Franklin Klein, Professor emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, is a psychiatrist and researcher who revolutionized psychiatric thinking through his discovery in 1960 that imipramine, a recently-developed psychotropic medication, was effective in blocking panic attacks. The collection consists of correspondence, subject files, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) committee files, grant applications, research projects, publications, video and audiotapes, awards, certificates and biographical sketches related to Klein's work as a founder of modern psychopharmacology.

Donald Franklin Klein was born in New York City on September 4, 1928. He attended the Bronx High School of Science, and received his Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, from Colby College in Waterville, Maine in 1947. He then attended the New York University Graduate Program in Biology from 1947-48 and received his M.D. degree from the State University of New York, College of Medicine in 1952.

36.8 linear ft. (34 record storage cartons, 4 document boxes and 6 half document boxes)

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