Paul Greengard (born 1925), American molecular neuroscientist, shared the 2000 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
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Michael "Mig" Greengard (born 1969), American chess author and journalist
The Prize was founded by Nobel laureate Paul Greengard and his wife Ursula von Rydingsvard in honor of Greengard's mother, Pearl Meister Greengard, who died giving birth to him.