Joyce Jacobson Kaufman

Joyce Jacobson Kaufman (21 June 1929 to 26 August 2016) was an American chemist known for advancing the science of quantum chemistry and for clinical research on anaesthetics. Born to an immigrant family in the Bronx and educated at Johns Hopkins University, she worked at the Sorbonne and at Martin Marietta before returning to Johns Hopkins. At the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine she worked with residents and interns and studied the effect of drugs such as narcotics on the central nervous system. She was elected a fellow of the American Institute of Chemists in 1965 and of the American Physical Society in 1966, received the Legion of Honour in 1969, and was awarded the Garvan Medal of the American Chemical Society in 1973.