Harvey Motulsky

After graduating from medical school and doing an internship in internal medicine, I switched to research in receptor pharmacology research (and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles). While I was on the faculty in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of California San Diego, I was given the job of teaching statistics to first-year medical students and to graduate students. The syllabus for those courses grew into the first edition of Intuitive Biostatistics. I hated creating graphs by hand, so I created some programs to do so. I also created some simple statistics programs when I saw that the existing statistical software, while great for statisticians, was overkill for most scientists. These efforts became the beginnings of GraphPad Software, Inc. (www.graphpad.com), which was a full-time endeavor for me for many years.