1950s - Robinson

Joseph D. Robinson Jr., M.D. ’59, professor emeritus of pharmacology at the Syracuse campus of the State University of New York, retired to Charlottesville, Va., after four decades of biomedical research (membrane transport) and teaching (neuropharmacology). For the past two decades he has been indulging his enthusiasm for the history and philosophy of science, and his most recent book, Mechanisms of Synaptic Transmission: Bridging the Gaps (1890-1990), just received the biennial award for Outstanding Book in the History of the Neurosciences from the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences.