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Read Replies (1) | Respond to When Hoffmann-La Roche wanted to give Leo a $60,000 bonus for Valium,Leo Sternbach Oct 1, 2005 Hoffmann-La Roche in Nutley, New Jersey , Sternbach did significant work on new drugs. He is credited with the discovery of chlordiazepoxide (Librium), diazepam (Valium), flurazepam (Dalmane), nitrazepam (Mogadon), flunitrazepam (Rohypnol), clonazepam (Klonopin), and trimethaphan (Arfonad). Librium, based on the R0 6-690 compound discovered by Sternbach in 1956, was approved for use in 1960. In 1963, its improved version, Valium, was released and became astonishingly popular: between 1969 and 1982, it was the most prescribed drug in America, with over 2.3 billion doses sold in its peak year of 1978. With Moses Wolf Goldberg , Sternbach also developed "the first commercially applicable" method for synthesizing biotin . [6] pharmaceutical industry giant. He did not become wealthy from his discoveries, but he was happy; he treated chemistry as a passion and said, "I always did just what I wanted to do". He was active in his career until the age of 95. Sternbach was a longtime resident of Upper Montclair, New Jersey , from 1943 to 2003. He then moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina , where he died in 2005. [7] [8]
