Anna Newman Taylor

October 28, 1933 - December 30, 2021 Anna Newman Taylor was born in Vienna in 1933. She came to America as a child in early 1939 with her parents as the curtain of Naziism was dropping over Europe.

Raised in Cleveland, she received a doctorate in neurobiology from Case Western Reserve in 1961; during those years marrying Kenneth Taylor, who had come from England to do graduate work in physics She did postdoctoral work in Paris, had faculty appointments first at Baylor University in Houston and finally UCLA in the mid-1960s where she remained on faculty to her death. Her laboratory was active for over 50 years in research in areas such as fetal alcohol syndrome and brain trauma neurophysiology, only closing with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. She was a mentor for many researchers in neurobiology across the world and organized several brain research conferences that have continued for many years. An interview of her at the 2016 American Physiological Society meetings can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch
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She was very involved in the Jewish National Fund, and a range of progressive Jewish advocacy groups. She was an alpine skier and swimmer into her eighties. She attended opera and, with her husband, collected fine art. She died in Santa Monica, near her home overlooking the beach, on Dec 30, 2021.