Norbert Matussek (1922–2009)

| | || With the death of Norbert Matussek on 10 November 2009, the international communities of Biological Psychiatry and Psychopharmacology lost one of their foremost members. The CINP lost one of its Honorary Fellows and all of us a dear friend and trusted colleague. Norbert Matussek was born in 1922 in Berlin. He studied medicine and chemistry in Heidelberg, Tuebingen and Munich and received his M.D. degree in 1952 from the University of Munich and his Dipl.Chem. in 1955 from the University of Heidelberg. From 1954 to 1956, he worked with Adolf Butenandt, a Nobel Laureate in Medicine, at the Max-Planck Institute in Tuebingen where he pursued studies on Ecdyson which he characterized as a steroid hormone, and on the isolation and structural characterization …