"Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol" Raphael Mechoulam Signed Album Page Todd Mueller COA

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"Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol" Raphael Mechoulam Hand Signed Album Page Dated 1983.
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Raphael Mechoulam
(
Hebrew
:
רפאל משולם
‎; born 5 November 1930) is an Israeli
organic chemist
and professor of
Medicinal Chemistry
at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
in Israel. Mechoulam is best known for his work (together with Y. Gaoni, C. Trips, and S. Benezra) in the isolation, structure elucidation and total synthesis of Δ
9
-
tetrahydrocannabinol
, the main active principle of
cannabis
and for the isolation and the identification of the endogenous cannabinoids
anandamide
from the brain and 2-arachidonoyl glycerol
(2-AG)
from peripheral organs together with his students, postdocs and collaborators. Mechoulam was born in
Sofia
,
Bulgaria
in 1930, to a
Sephardic Jewish
family. His father was a
physician
and head of a local hospital, while his mother "who had studied in Berlin, enjoyed the life of a well-to-do Jewish family". He attended an "American Grade School" until his parents were forced to leave their hometown because of
anti-semitic laws
and his father was subsequently sent to a concentration camp, from which he survived. After the communist takeover of hitherto pro-German
Bulgaria
in 1944 he studied
chemical engineering
, which he "disliked." In 1949 his family immigrated to
Israel
where he later studied
chemistry
. He gained his first research experience in the Israeli Army working on
insecticides
.
He received his M.Sc. in biochemistry from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1952), and his Ph.D. at the
Weizmann Institute
, Reḥovot (1958), with a thesis on the chemistry of steroids. After postdoctoral studies at the
Rockefeller Institute
, New York (1959–60), he was on the scientific staff of the Weizmann Institute (1960–65), before moving to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he became professor (1972) and Lionel Jacobson Professor of Medicinal Chemistry from 1975. He was rector (1979–82) and pro-rector (1983–85). In 1994 he was elected a member of the
Israel Academy of Sciences
. Mechoulam is one of the founding members of the
International Association for Cannabinoid Medicines
.