Joyce Jacobson Kaufman

Joyce Jacobson Kaufman 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 Martin Marietta before returning to Johns Hopkins. At Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, with residences and interns, Kaufman studied the effect of drugs such as narcotics on the central nervous system.