Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (died 1915)

Alois Alzheimer

German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (1864–1915)

Alois Alzheimer was a German psychiatrist, neuropathologist and colleague of Emil Kraepelin. He is credited with identifying the first published case of "presenile dementia", which Kraepelin later identified as Alzheimer's disease.