- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS National Academy of Sciences Alfred Gilman February 5, 1908 January 13, 1984 By Murdoch Ritchie ALFRED GILMAN, an internationally renowned pharmacologist who died on January 13, 1984, will be remembered by countless scholars for his coauthorship of the seminal textbook on the pharmacological basis of therapeutics, by generations of medical students for his brilliant and ...www.nap.edu/html/biomems/agilman.html