Louis Wolff

Louis Wolff (April 14, 1898 – January 28, 1972) was an American cardiologist and college professor. He was the chief of the electrocardiographic laboratory at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston from 1928 to 1964. In 1930, Wolff described the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome with John Parkinson and Paul Dudley White.

Early life Wolff was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1898. He attended The English High School in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. Louis and Alice had two children, Lea Wolff and Richard Wolff. They had two children, Sarah Wolff and Charles Wolff.

Wolff died of Parkinson's disease in the Beth Israel Hospital on January 28, 1972. His funeral services were held in the Levine Chapel in Brookline. He was buried in Moses Mendelsohn Cemetery. Two of his children entered the medical field: Richard became a cardiologist and Charles became a physician.

Selected publications

Wolff, Louis. Electrocardiography in Fundamentals and Clinical Application. Philadelphia: WB Saunders, 1950.