Louis Wolff
Louis Wolff (1898 in Boston, Massachusetts – 28 January 1972[1]) was an American cardiologist. He described the eponymously named Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome with Doctors John Parkinson (1885–1976) and Paul Dudley White (1886–1973).[2]
Biography
Personal life
Wolff married Alice Muscanto, a flute player born in Vilnius who played with her sisters and brothers in a touring musical ensemble. Louis was a concert-quality violinist who enjoyed accompanying his wife and her siblings in their apartment in Brookline, Massachusetts. Louis and Alice had two children, Lea (b. July 1, 1921; d. December 1, 2007), a French teacher for many years in Boston public schools, and Richard (born August 20, 1923; d. February 14, 2009), also a cardiologist. Louis remarried after Alice's death, to Phyllis Raftell-Wolff, and together they had two more children, Sarah (b. 1954), an elementary school teacher, and Charles (b. 1959), a physician.
Education and career
Wolff graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Harvard Medical School; and he was a past president of the New England Cardiovascular Society. He was a clinical professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Death
Wolff died on January 28, 1972.[1]
Published works
- Wolff, Louis; Parkinson, John; White, Paul D. (August 1930). "Bundle-Branch Block with Short P-R Interval in Healthy Young People Prone to Paroxysmal tachycardia". The American Heart Journal. 5 (6): 685–705. doi:10.1111/j.1542-474X.2006.00127.x. PMC 6932258. PMID 17040283.
Associated eponyms
References
- ^ a b "Dr. Louis Wolff, Professor And Noted Heart Specialist". The New York Times. January 30, 1972. p. 52.
- ^ Kurland, G. S. (May 1989). "Louis Wolff: 1898-1972". Clinical Cardiology. 12 (5): 301–302. doi:10.1002/clc.4960120514. S2CID 71948059.
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