About Teofil Simchowicz
Lived 1879 – 1957 (aged 78). Teofil Simchowicz was a Polish neurologist.
Teofil Simchowicz (3 June 1879 – 31 December 1957) was a Polish neurologist who was born in Ciechanowiec, in the Grodno Governorate of the Russian Empire (now 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.
He discovered granulovacuolar degeneration (of Simchowicz), observed in hippocampal pyramidal cells in Alzheimer's disease.
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Who was Teofil Simchowicz?
Polish neurologist (1879-1957)
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Teofil Simchowicz was born on 3 June 1879 in Ciechanowiec.
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Teofil Simchowicz died on 31 December 1957 in Tel Aviv.
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Teofil Simchowicz was a neurologist.
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Teofil Simchowicz was Polish.
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