Theodore Sourkes

Theodore Lionel Sourkes, OC FRSC (February 21, 1919 – January 17, 2015) was a Canadian biochemist and neuropsychopharmacologist who helped advance the treatment of Parkinson's disease and hypertension.

After the war, he received a Master of Science degree from McGill studying under Earle Wilcox Crampton.

He worked briefly as assistant professor in pharmacology at Georgetown University before joining the Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research.

In 1953, he returned to McGill University in the Department of Psychiatry where he stayed for the rest of his career.

[4] "His archives are held at McGill University in the Osler Library of the History of Medicine[5] He married Shena Rosenblatt on January 17, 1943.