==Discovery in users of illicit drugs==The neurotoxicity of MPTP was hinted at in 1976 after Barry Kidston, a 23-year-old chemistry graduate student in Maryland, US, synthesized MPPP with MPTP as a major impurity, and self-injected the result.
Leta 1993 je bil kot 40. izbran na NHL naboru s strani kluba New York Islanders, za katerega je zaigral v sezoni 1995/96.