Frank Berger | |
Birth Date: | 25 June 1913 |
Birth Place: | Plzeň, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary |
Death Place: | Manhattan, New York, United States |
Alma Mater: | Charles University |
Occupation: | Pharmacologist |
Known For: | Discovering meprobamate, carisoprodol, and felbamate |
Frank Milan Berger (25 June 1913 - 18 March 2008) was a Czech pharmacologist. He discovered meprobamate, carisoprodol, and felbamate, while working at Wallace Laboratories.[1]
He also discovered the 'tranquilising' effects of mephenesin in rodents while working at a laboratory in the United Kingdom,[2] and campaigned against the advertising of medications in the mass media.[3]