Marian Fischman

Marian Rita Weinbaum Fischman (October 13, 1939 – October 23, 2001) was an American psychologist. She researched narcotics and addiction.[1]

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.[2] 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.[3][4]