Candace Pert

Candace Beebe Pert was an American neuroscientist and pharmacologist who discovered the opioid receptor, the cellular binding site for endorphins in the brain.

26 June 1946

Born on the same birth day (26 June): Abner Doubleday • Anne Catherine of Brandenburg • Chad Pennington • Claudio Abbado • Lord Kelvin • Marguerite Pindling • Philip Doddridge • Pommie Mbangwa • Raleigh Rhodes • Robert Borden • Victor Amadeus III • Ya'akov Cahan

Born in the same month (June 1946): Allen Lanier • Catherine Bréchignac • David Collenette • David Kazhdan • Gabriel of Komana • Jack Horner (paleontologist) • John Du Cann • Józef Oleksy • Malcolm Rifkind • Maria Bethânia • Noddy Holder • Peter Rosei • Robert Asprin • Russell Ash • Sher Bahadur Deuba • Tõnu Sepp