Alfred Hauptmann

Alfred Hauptmann (August 29, 1881, in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia – April 5, 1948, in Boston, Massachusetts) was a German-Jewish psychiatrist and neurologist.

His most important contribution remained the article written in 1912 on the effectiveness of the phenobarbital as an anti-epileptic. After his emigration, he and the internist Siegfried Thannhauser, who had also emigrated, described an autosomal dominant inherited myopathy for the first time in 1941, which is now known as Hauptmann-Thannhauser muscular dystrophy. Provided by Wikipedia