Good chemistry : the life and legacy of valium inventor Leo Sternbach - Baenninger, Alex. (New York : McGraw-Hill, 2004)
Pt. I. The biography ofLeo Henryk Sternbach. A cure for troubled souls. Pearl of the Adriatic. First blossoming. A chemist of world renown. Upholding success -- Pt. II. The drug that changed the world. The benzodiazepine story. The crippling cost of anxiety and the benzodiazepine revolution. A social history: putting benzodiazepine into perspective. The scientific impact of the benzodiazepines. The present and the future.
Keywords: Sternbach, L. H; Benzodiazepines -- History; Diazepam -- History; Chemists -- New Jersey -- Biography