Benjamin Weiss (scientist)
Benjamin Weiss is an American neuropharmacologist and Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology at Drexel University College of Medicine.
, his research focused on "the effects of age on brain function and on the influence of psychotropic drugs on the brain."
Early life and education
Weiss was born in 1937. He went to high school in Toms [River, New Jersey]. He received his undergraduate degree in pharmacy in 1958 from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. He received earned a M.Sc. in 1960 and a Ph.D. in Pharmacology in 1963 from the same university. As a graduate student he published a co-authored paper in Nature with G. Victor Rossi.Career
Weiss was a professor of pharmacology at the Medical College of Pennsylvania, now known as the Drexel [University College of Medicine].In 1981, he was cited by Current Contents as one of the "1,000 scientist-authors most-cited for work published from 1965-1978."
He was editor of two books. He has also published over 300 scientific articles.