Dr. Alfred Z. Gilman was a pharmacologist who is well known for his co-authoring of the classic textbook "The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics" with Louis S. Goodman, M.D. Dr. Gilman received a bachelor's degree from Yale College in 1928 and Ph.D. in physiological chemistry from Yale in 1931. He then joined the Department of Pharmacology of the Yale School of Medicine as a postdoctoral fellow, where he met Dr. Goodman. From 1948 to 1956, Dr. Gilman was a professor of pharmacology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. In 1956, Dr. Gilman became the founding chairman of the Department of Pharmacology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, a position he held until 1973, when he re-joined the faculty at Yale. He remained at Yale until his death in 1984. Dr. Gilman was the father of Alfred Gilman Goodman, M.D., Ph.D., who became chair of UT Southwestern's Department of Pharmacology in 1981 and won the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.