William Landau

William Milton Landau (October 10, 1924 – November 2, 2017) was an American neurologist who was a professor of neurology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. It was within his specialty of stroke and movement disorders that he gained eponymous recognition for the Landau–Kleffner syndrome.

Landau died on November 2, 2017, from natural causes at his home in University City, Missouri. He was 93 years old.

Works published

Landau WM. "Hypertonus Spasticity, Rigidity" and "Babinski's Reflex, Sign of". Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Edited by George Adelman, Barry H. Smith, Elsevier Science BV, 1999 Landau WM. Clinical Neuromythology and Other Arguments and Essays, Pertinent and Impertinent, Futura Publishing Company, Inc. Armonk, NY, 1998