Word: neurobiologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speeded up with the aid of chemicals and whether memory can be improved. The most affirmative evidence came from Illinois' Abbott Laboratories, where Biochemists Alvin J. Glasky, 32, and Lionel Simon, 31, worked in their spare time on a theory of memory developed by Sweden's Neurobiologist Holger Hyden (TIME, Feb. 10, 1961). According to this theory, memory depends on a process in which molecules of ribonucleic acid (RNA), or possibly subordinate protein molecules, are coded to record a particular event and then become lodged in certain nerve cells...
...seemed too marvelous to be made up of mere matter. Yet it obviously consists of some arrangement of molecules in the brain that work collectively to remember and reason. Last week in San Francisco, a score of the world's most eminent scientists of the mind heard Swedish Neurobiologist Holger Hyden (pronounced he-dam), 43, offer a theory about the chemistry of thought. Hyden, who is chief of tissue studies at the University of Goteborg, even named a chemical that dictators might use to disrupt the thought process and enslave the minds of their subjects...