Jack Fishman
Jack Fishman · Science & Medicine
Chemist who co-developed naloxone (Narcan), the opioid overdose antidote.
1930, Kraków, Poland — 2013, United States
Poland · China (Shanghai) · United States
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Jack Fishman, born Jacob Fiszman, was a Polish-American pharmaceutical chemist who, with Mozes Lewenstein, developed and patented naloxone (Narcan) in 1961—the drug that reverses opioid overdoses and has since saved countless lives. Fleeing Nazi-occupied Poland as a child, he spent his youth in Shanghai before emigrating to the United States. He was Jewish, and attended a Jewish school in Shanghai and Yeshiva University in New York.
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Chemist who co-developed naloxone (Narcan), the opioid overdose antidote.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
