Sternbach, Leo Henryk

Sternbach, Leo Henryk
▪ 2006

      American chemist (b. May 7, 1908, Abbazia, Austro-Hungarian Empire [now Opatija, Croatia]—d. Sept. 28, 2005, Chapel Hill, N.C.), developed a group of tranquilizing drugs known as benzodiazepines, which included Valium (diazepam), a popular sedative that became the most prescribed drug in the United States after its approval in 1963. Known as “mother's little helper,” or simply as V, nearly 2.3 billion Valium pills were sold in 1978. During Sternbach's 60-year tenure with pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-La Roche, he was credited with some 241 patents, and in 1979 the American Institute of Chemists presented him with the Chemical Pioneer Award.

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