While his best-known work has been in medical research, Kety has also spent many years as a teacher and a medical administrator.
Kety was the first scientific director of the National Institutes of Mental Health, where he worked for 16 years prior to arriving at Harvard Medical School. He also served as the Director of the Psychiatric Research Laboratories at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, and has taught medicine at several colleges in the U.S. and France.
He holds honorary degrees from 10 universities.
Kety and his wife Josephine will celebrate their 60th anniversary next year.