Charles B. G. Murphy was a pioneer and philanthropist in psychiatry who was born in 1906 in Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
In 1928 and in 1933, Murphy went to Africa with John Sterling Rockefeller, a fellow student at Yale, to study wildlife.
The expedition resulted in two joint publications: In 1942, Murphy worked as the chief of the Graveyard Section of the War Production Board Bureau of Industry Conservation.
He helped seize scrap metal in Valparaiso, Indiana to build war tanks.
Through three separate philanthropies, Murphy and his estate have given over $10 million to Yale, exclusively in the Department of Psychiatry and the School of Medicine.