Solomon H. Snyder

Solomon Halbert Snyder is an American neuroscientist, born in Washington, D.C., on December 26, 1938, one of five children, who has made wide-ranging contributions to neuropharmacology and neurochemistry. He studied at Georgetown University and moved to the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine to complete his residency in psychiatry from 1965 to 1968, and he has conducted the majority of his research at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Many advances in molecular neuroscience stem from his identification of receptors for neurotransmitters and drugs and his elucidation of the actions of psychotropic agents. He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1978 for his research on the opioid receptor, and he is one of the most highly cited researchers in the biological and biomedical sciences, with the highest h-index in those fields for 1983 to 2002 and again from 2007 to 2019.