Paul Adriaan Jan Janssen (Turnhout, Belgium, 12 September 1926 - Rome, Italy, 11 November, 2003) was the founder of Janssen Pharmaceutica, a pharmaceutical company with over 20,000 employees. He achieved a postdoctorate in Pharmacology and is one of Belgium's most loved figures, even posthumously. Dr. Paul Janssen was the son of Constant Janssen and Margriet Fleerackers. On 16 April 1957, he married Dora Arts. Paul Janssen died in Rome, Italy in 2003, … Wikipedia
On Tuesday, November 11, 2003 Paul Adriaan Jan Janssen, Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors of Janssen Pharmaceutica and of the Janssen Research Foundation died at age 77. www.nature.com/npp/journal/v29/n8/full/1300423a.html
Exactly half a century ago, Paul Janssen set himself the challenge of creating a totally independent and self supporting medical research laboratory in his native Flanders, close to the Dutch border. bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/327/7426/1290
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