Stephen Heinemann
professor of neuroscience (1939-2014)
Stephen F. Heinemann (1939–2014) was a professor of neuroscience at the Salk Institute. He was an early researcher in the field of molecular neuroscience, contributing to the current knowledge of how nerves communicate with each other, and the role of neurotransmitters. Stephen Heinemann died August 6, 2014, of kidney failure.
Early life
Stephen Heinemann was born February 11, 1939, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Robert Heinemann and Christel Fuchs. He grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts and attended Buckingham Browne & Nichols secondary school. Heinemann met his wife, Ann Reischauer Heinemann, in Cambridge. They were married for 54 years and had five children. His uncle, Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs, a physicist and spy who contributed to the development of the atomic bomb, influenced Heinemann's interest in science.
Education and career
Heinemann graduated from Caltech with a bachelor's degree in 1962, and in 1967, he earned a PhD in biochemistry at Harvard University under the mentorship of Matt Meselson, a well known geneticist and molecular biologist. He then did research as a postdoctoral fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University.
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