Louis Wolff

Louis Wolff (1898 in Boston, Massachusetts – 28 January 1972) was an American cardiologist. He described the eponymously named Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome with Doctors John Parkinson (1885–1976) and Paul Dudley White (1886–1973).

Personal life

Louis Wolff married Alice Muscanto, a flute player born in Vilnius who played with her sisters and brothers in a touring musical ensemble. Louis was a concert-quality violinist who enjoyed accompanying his wife and her siblings in their apartment in Brookline, Massachusetts. Louis and Alice had two children, Lea (b. July 1, 1921; d. December 1, 2007), a French teacher for many years in Boston public schools, and Richard (born August 20, 1923; d. February 14, 2009), also a cardiologist. Louis remarried after Alice's death, to Phyllis Raftell-Wolff, and together they had two more children, Sarah (b. 1954), an elementary school teacher, and Charles (b. 1959), a physician.

Education and career

Dr. Wolff graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Harvard Medical School; and he was a past president of the New England Cardiovascular Society. He was a clinical professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Death

Louis Wolff died on January 28, 1972.

Associated eponyms

• Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome

External links

• Who named it? - Louis Wolff
• Louis Wolff Obit NY Times.
• Bundle-Branch Block with Short P-R Interval in Healthy Young People Prone to Paroxysmal tachycardia - originally published in The American Heart Journal vol.5, issue 6, August 1930 pages 685–705.
• PubMed link to the above article.