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Franz J. Kallmann, M.D.

AMA Arch Neurol. 1960;2(4):363-364.

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In 2059, expert historians will be able to tell whether the year 1959 was an authentic turning point in the advance of the biological and behavioral sciences, and perhaps proved as important as 1859, the year of the publication of the "Origin of Species." In 1959, some well-known psychiatrists still felt impelled to complain about the "overemphasis" placed by contemporary psychiatry upon the biochemical and cytogenetic substrate of mental disease. At the same time others believed that psychiatrists were just beginning to explore these basic phenomena.

Be that as it may, 1959 happened to be the year of the Darwin Centennial Celebration, with scientists from every part of the globe convening at the University of Chicago to commemorate the impact of the theory of evolution on the understanding of man as a biological organism. It also was the year in which another twosome of American scholars received the Nobel Prize . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Dept. of Psychiatry Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons New York

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