Wallace B. Mendelson

Wallace B. Mendelson
Wallace B. Mendelson giving a lecture in New York, 2018
Born1945 (age 78–79)
EducationUniversity of Texas at Austin (BA)
Washington University in St. Louis (MD)
Occupations
Medical career
Institutions
Research

Wallace B. Mendelson is an American psychiatrist and author, working primarily in the fields of sleep research and psychopharmacology. He most recently worked at the University of Chicago as a professor of psychiatry and clinical pharmacology and the director of the school's Sleep Research Laboratory. He is the author of fifteen books and numerous papers in the fields of sleep science, pharmacology and history of science.