David de Wied

David de Wied (12 January 1925 – 21 February 2004, aged 79) was a Dutch professor of pharmacology at the University of Utrecht.

Due to the necessity of hiding as a Jew during the Second World War, De Wied only started in 1947 studying medicine at the University of Groningen.

The subject was made comprehensible to the public when the media coined the term "learning-pill" describing the effect of the discovery.

De Wied was a member of many learned societies including the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

In 2011 the new faculty building of exact science of the University of Utrecht was named after David de Wied.