Marian Fischman
Marian Rita Weinbaum Fischman was an American psychologist. She researched narcotics and addiction.
Born in Queens, Fischman lived in an apartment above her father's drugstore. She attended Barnard College. Fischman completed a master's in psychology at Columbia University and a doctorate from University of Chicago. In 1984, she began research on cocaine and other drugs at Johns Hopkins University. Fischman met her second husband, Herbert Kleber, at a scientific meeting in Washington D.C. in 1987. Together they founded a research center in drug addiction at Columbia University in 1992. She was previously married to physician Donald Fischman. Fischman died on October 23, 2001, at NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital from complications with colon cancer. She was survived by her husband and a son, two daughters, two stepdaughters, mother, and a brother. She was residing in Manhattan at the time of her death.
