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Alois Alzheimer a physician of German origin who lived from 1864 to 1915. Alzheimer earned great success as a professor of psychology in Breaslau. His main interest was histopathology, the study of disease tissue. Alzheimer is also created as being one of the founding fathers of neuropathology, the study of disease of the nervous system tissue

Read more in the link, if interested. His, was a German name in origin, and gave rise to "Alzheimer's disease"

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