Livingston, Robert B. (Robert Burr), 1918-2002
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Fuller Name
- Robert Burr
Variants
- Livingston, Robert Burr, 1918-
Additional Information
Birth Date
- 1918
Death Date
- 2002
Has Affiliation
- Organization: National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.)
- Organization: National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness (U.S.)
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1946
- Affiliation End: 1947
- Organization: Harvard Medical School
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1946
- Affiliation End: 1952
- Organization: Yale University. School of Medicine
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1952
- Affiliation End: 1957
- Organization: University of California, Los Angeles. School of Medicine
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1965
- Affiliation End: 1989
- Organization: University of California, San Diego. School of Medicine
Birth Place
- Boston (Mass.)
Field of Activity
(lcsh) Malnutrition--Research
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Earlier Established Forms
- Livingston, Robert Burr, 1918-
Sources
- found: Sensory processing, perception, and behavior, c1978:t.p. (Robert B. Livingston)
- found: Amer. Med. dir., 1979(Livingston, Robert Burr, Univ. of Calif., San Diego, primary speciality: Neurology)
- found: Robert B. Livingston papers, 1918-2000:finding aid (Neuroscientist Robert Burr Livingston was born in 1918 in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Stanford University School of Medicine in 1944. His major academic appointments include Harvard Medical School (1946-1947); the Yale University School of Medicine (1946-1952); the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine (1952-1957); and the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine (1965-1989). Livingston served as scientific director for both the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) and the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness (NINDB) from 1956-1965. In 1965 he founded the world's first interdisciplinary neuroscience department at UC San Diego. He is well known for his work in the cinemorphology of the human brain and also made significant contributions to the study of the relationship between chronic undernutrition and human brain development. Livingston also consulted on the autopsy of President John F. Kennedy, and served as science advisor to the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet. Livingston died in 2002 in La Jolla, California.) - https://library.ucsd.edu/speccoll/findingaids/mss0418.html
- found: OCLC, Oct. 6, 2017(access points: Livingston, Robert Burr, 1918-; Livingston, Robert B.; usage: Robert B. Livingston; Robert Burr Livingston; Robert Livingston)
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Change Notes
- 1981-10-19: new
- 2017-10-11: revised
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