Frank Berger, 2010 Humanist Lifetime Achievement Award

Awarded posthumously, June 2010 at the 69th Annual Conference of the American Humanist Association, San Jose, CA.

Frank Berger was best known as the developer of Miltown, the first mass-market psychiatric drug that would become a forerunner of drugs such as Valium and Prozac. Dr. Berger continued his work in drug development until 1975 and became chairman of medical research at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. A longtime member of the American Humanist Association and a signer of Humanist Manifesto III, he also supported the New York Society for Ethical Culture and the New York Academy of Sciences.

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