Carl Curt Pfeiffer (March 19, 1908 – November 18, 1988) was a physician and biochemist who researched schizophrenia, allergies and other diseases.
He was Chair of the Pharmacology Department at Emory University and considered himself a founder of what two-time Nobel prize winner, [Pauling, PhD.
[2] Until the 1970s, under the project titled MKUltra; he administered LSD to inmates in the Atlanta penitentiary and in New Jersey Bordentown Reformatory.
[2] Pfeiffer was interested in trace element and mineral metabolism in schizophrenia and what is now known as bipolar disorder[4] and investigated the therapeutic uses of amino acids in various illnesses.
[8] Pfeiffer founded the Princeton Brain-Bio Center, an outpatient treatment facility specializing Orthomolecular Psychiatry and Medicine.
[10] Pfeiffer conducted a 12-year study which allowed him to classify behavior disorders into four categories based on trace metal patterns.