Joyce Jacobson Kaufman

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Joyce Jacobson Kaufman 1964

Joyce Jacobson Kaufman (born June 21, 1929 in New York City ; † August 26, 2016 in Baltimore ) was an American theoretical chemist and physicist who, among other things, dealt with the quantitative structure-activity relationship of psychotropic drugs.

Life

Joyce Jacobson Kaufman was born in 1929 in the Bronx to Robert and Sarah Jacobson, née Seldinshe . After her parents separated in 1935, she grew up with her grandparents and her mother in a traditional Jewish family in Baltimore , Maryland . In 1940 her mother married Abraham Deutch, an immigrant from Riga who had been in Palestine for seven years until 1924 . Joyce Jacobson Kaufman began reading at the age of two and showed an early interest in math and science. At nine, she took part in a gifted student program at Johns Hopkins University , where she began studying chemistry in 1945 after an accelerated high school graduation. At the age of twenty, she completed her bachelor's degree in 1949 . Until 1952 she worked as a librarian and chemist at the US Army Chemical Center in Edgewood , Maryland. She then returned to the university as a research assistant, where she completed her master's degree in 1959 and her doctorate in chemistry and chemical physics in 1960 . In 1962 she went to Paris with her mother and daughter, who was born in 1955, at the Sorbonne , where she received the Doctorat ès Sciences in theoretical physics in 1963 .

From 1960 she was employed at the research institute of the Glenn L. Martin Company (later Martin Marietta Corporation ), where she worked in the field of quantum chemistry until 1969 . She then became an associate professor in the anesthesia department of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and from 1976/77 until her retirement as an associate professor in the Department of Surgery . The main focus of her work was the theoretical analysis of the effects of drugs, especially psychotropic drugs, using methods of quantum chemistry and the comparison with conventional, cost-intensive animal experiments. Their studies and theoretical models enabled a precise elucidation of the molecular structure as well as predictions about toxicity and are used in structure-based drug design .

Joyce Jacobson married Stanley Kaufman in 1948, with whom she has a daughter. Jan Caryl Kaufman, born in 1955, was one of the first women to be ordained as rabbis in the United States (1979). Joyce and Stanley Kaufman's marriage was divorced in 1982.

Awards (selection)

literature

  • Elizabeth H. Oakes: Encyclopedia of World Scientists. Revised Edition, Facts On File, 2007, ISBN 978-1-4381-1882-6 , p. 389 ( online ).
  • Tiffany K. Wayne: American Women of Science Since 1900 (Vol.1: Essays AH). ABC-Clio, 2011, ISBN 978-1-59884-158-9 , p. 566 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joyce Jacobson Kaufman. accessed on July 12, 2020
  2. ↑ Dr. Joyce Kaufman Broke Ground in Science, Gender Baltimore Jewish Times, accessed July 12, 2020
  3. ^ A b c d e Jan Caryl Kaufman: Joyce Jacobson Kaufman. Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved July 27, 2014.
  4. ↑ a b Tiffany K. Wayne: American Women of Science Since 1900 (Vol.1: Essays AH). ABC-Clio, 2011, p. 566 f.
  5. ^ A b Elizabeth H. Oakes: Encyclopedia of World Scientists. Revised Edition, Facts On File, 2007, p. 389.
personal data
SURNAME Jacobson Kaufman, Joyce
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theoretical chemist and physicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH 26th August 2016
Place of death Baltimore