JOHN HUGHES
Professor of Neuropharmacology
Director
Parke-Davis Neuroscience Research Centre
Addenbrookes Hospital Site
Cambridge, U.K.
Where Credit Is Due
The Jan. 6, 1992, issue of The Scientist [page 21] included a report on the Bower Award, presented to Solomon H. Snyder. Without wishing to detract in any way from Snyder's richly deserved honor, I wish to point out that it was Hans Kosterlitz of the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and I who identified and named the enkephalins and, together with T.W. Smith, L. Fothergill, B. Morgan, and H.R. Morris, published the cited Nature paper (257:185-9, 1975), which characterized the two peptides. Sny
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