Authors' Response: Of founding fathers and history

摘要

Richter is regarded as one of the "founding fathers" of modern neurochem-istry along with Henry Mcllwain, Judah Quastel, and others [. . .] But Richter's numerous contributions and achievements extended far beyond the confines of the laboratory ... he established a Neuropsychiatric Research Unit in Cardiff in the late 1950s . . . which was probably one of the first British laboratories that promoted multidisciplinary approaches to neurobiology and neuropsychiatry. ... He also set up a "Mental Health Research Fund" that played an important role in funding mental health research in the United Kingdom. . . . [He] substantially contributed to the institutionalization of the new hybrid disciplines such as neurochemistry and the neurosciences. When he served as the secretary of the IBRO from 1972 to 1979, not only did he initiate the publication of IBRO News — considered the most widely distributed bulletin in the brain sciences ... — but he also helped launch, in 1976, Neuroscience, one of the very first journals dedicated to the neurosciences. (p. 196)