Solomon H. Snyder

Solomon Halbert Snyder ( born December 26, 1938 in Washington, DC) is an American neuroscientist.

Snyder studied at Georgetown University and is now Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience and Pharmacology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is best known for the role of nitric oxide as a neurotransmitter and the dopamine hypothesis as the cause of schizophrenia ( with Alan S. Horn 1971). Snyder wrote numerous scientific papers such as psyche and chemistry of psychosis and brain functions.

From 1979 to 1980, Snyder President of the Society for Neuroscience.

He has won numerous academic awards, including the 1970 John J. Abel Award in Pharmacology, 1978 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, the 1982 Wolf Prize in Medicine, the 1992 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science, 2000, Ralph W. , Gerard prize, 2006 Perl -UNC Neuroscience prize, the 2007 Albany Medical Center prize and the 2013 NAS Award in the Neurosciences.

Dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia Roger Wolcott Sperry Arvid Carlsson Leo Sachs Barbara McClintock James Black (pharmacologist) Donald F. Steiner Pedro Cuatrecasas Meir Wilchek Elizabeth F. Neufeld Edward B. Lewis Maclyn McCarty Seymour Benzer Michael Berridge Michael Sela Ruth Arnon Avram Hershko Mario Capecchi Oliver Smithies Roger Y. Tsien Alexander Levitzki Aharon Razin Axel Ullrich Rudolf Jaenisch Ronald M. Evans Integrated Authority File
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