Robert George

Robert George (February 10, 1923 – April 13, 2006) was an American pharmacologist who specifically researched neuropharmacology and helped create the Brain Research Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He spent the majority of his career at UCLA (1958–1991) and was the co-editor of the Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology from 1977–1990.

Early life and education Robert George was born on February 10, 1923 in Turlock, California. His father died of an illness in 1923, a month after his birth, at the age of 32. He attended the University of Oregon, where he also played on its football team as a halfback. He then attended the University of California, Berkeley for a PhD in physiology.

Career Following his PhD, he conducted postdoctoral research under E. Leong Way at the University of California, San Francisco. He then spent another year of postdoctoral research at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience in London with the neuroendocrinologist Geoffrey Harris, where he was funded by the National Institutes of Health. He joined the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles in 1958, where he remained until his retirement in 1991. He became a full professor in 1967. He was a professor emeritus until his death in 2006. Within the Department of Pharmacology he was the vice-chair and graduate advisor from 1970 to 1977.

Personal life and death He married Helga ; they had a daughter, Kathleen, and a son, Philip.