Paul Greengard (1925–2019), An Obituary-Tribute

Paul Greengard, a neuroscientist who had worked at the Rockefeller University in New York City died there on April 13, 2019 at the age of 93. He was married three times and divorced twice. His survivors include sculptor Ursula von Rydingsvard; three children, Claude Greengard, Leslie Greengard, and Ursula Anne von Rydingsvard; and sister Linda Greengard. Greengard had shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Eric Richard Kandel and Arvid Carlsson “for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system. ” Greengard did not learn about his mother’s death upon his birth until he was 20 years old. A strong advocate of gender equality in science, he used his entire Nobel Prize award of 400, 000 to create an annual award in his mother’s honor, the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, to recognize outstanding achievements of women scientists.