Scope and Contents The edited interview was published in the December 1980 issue of SciQuest. The recording starts with Dr. Sternbach, who was the chemist who first synthesized the anti-anxiety drugs Librium and Valium, talking about growing up in Yugoslavia where his father had a pharmacy, he was one of only two Jews in his class and experienced some level of anti-Semitism there, then his family moved to Poland. Discusses how he first became interested in chemistry, his education, early career, and WWII years...