Paul Greengard was found unresponsive on the floor of his home on East 63rd Street in Manhattan early in the morning of April 13, 2019, by his housekeeper who was arriving to begin her day. Emergency services were summoned and transported Greengard to the NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center at the 68th Street and York Avenue in Manhattan, but he never regained consciousness, spontaneous respirations, or cardiac rhythm. At the time of his passing, Paul was aged 93 years, and every day, he enjoyed the richness that was his life devoted to his science and to his wife, sculptor Ursula von Rydingsvard, who survives him.
Paul’s favorite name for Ursula was “Dolly”, and he was as smitten with and enchanted by her as was humanly possible. Over the past decades, the originality and soulfulness of Ursula’s work had grown rapidly, garnering her a well-deserved international…
