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Frank Milan Berger (June 25, 1913 – March 22, 2008) was a Czech-American scientist known for discovering the first tranquilizer, which changed millions of lives and inadvertently launched what became “Big Pharma.” (NYT) Called “Miltown” after a village near the New Jersey laboratory where he did his final research, this first mass-marketed prescription drug sold $200 million in six months–equivalent to nearly $2 billion today. (According to the NYT, after that, other drug companies began – and are still - vying for a piece of that pie. Which is even truer today.)