Daily News | Richard Wurtman, pioneering neuroscientist and Central hall of famer, has died at 86
On his first day at Central High School, Richard Jay Wurtman listened patiently as a teacher explained the history of the storied Philadelphia magnet school.
Dr. Wurtman grew up in Logan, a Philadelphia neighborhood surrounding North Broad Street, and, though he spent much of his adult life in Massachusetts, never forgot his Philadelphia roots. As a child, he was an avid piano player — though he preferred to play by ear instead of read music — and, in high school, spent Friday afternoons in the discount seats at the Academy of Music, listening to the Philadelphia Orchestra.
“It was his most cherished discovery,” said his wife, Judith Wurtman, the former director of MIT’s Program in Women’s Health. She and her husband often worked together, and co-authored several papers. Two years after Redux was pulled, Dr. Wurtman conducted research himself on the so-called “fen-phen” drug combination, stressing that he had no plans to return Redux to the market. Instead, he told the New York Times, “if something that I had a part in inventing as a scientist turned out maybe to be dangerous to people, then I’d be obligated to spend a little time trying to figure out what was going on.
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