biography
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| lived:
| (1921– )
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| biography:
| Psychiatrist, biochemist, and educator, born in Houston, Texas, USA. He became head of the department of psychiatry at Washington University (St Louis, MO) (1963–75). A proponent of biological psychiatry, he built one of the country's leading psychiatry departments. He left the university to devote himself full-time to research on suicide and biological aspects of mental illness, areas in which he became a leading expert. |
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