Teofil Simchowicz
Teofil Simchowicz (3 June 1879 - 31 December 1957) was a Polish neurologist who was born in Ciechanowiec near Warsaw, Poland. He studied medicine at the Imperial University of Warsaw, and received a medical degree in 1905. In years 1907-1910 he worked in Munich under Alois Alzheimer, studying neuropathological changes in dementia. During World War II he emigrated to Palestine.
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Teofil Simchowicz
He discovered granulovacuolar degeneration (of Simchowicz), observed in hippocampal pyramidal cells in Alzheimer's disease.
Bibliography
- Polski Słownik Biograficzny Tom XXXVII Warszawa-Kraków 1996–1997, s. 505-506 ISBN 83-86301-01-5.
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