Frederic Lewy

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Friedrich "Fritz" Heinrich Lewy (/ ˈlɛvi/; January 28, 1885 – October 5, 1950), known in his later years as Frederic Henry Lewey, was a German-born American neurologist. He is best known for the discovery of Lewy bodies, which are a characteristic indicator of Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies. In a 1912 paper based on work in Alois Alzheimer’s Munich laboratory he described intraneuronal inclusion bodies in brainstem nuclei of patients with paralysis agitans that were later termed Lewy bodies. Lewy was born to a Jewish family in Berlin, Germany, on January 28, 1885. He attended the Friedrichswerdersches Gymnasium in Berlin; in 1903 he began studies of medicine at the University of Berlin and the University of Zürich. On February 11, 1910, he received his doctorate from the University of Berlin with a thesis titled "Degenerationsversuche am akustischen System des Kaninchens und der Katze. Zugleich ein Beitrag zur Anwendung der Marchischen Methode" (Degeneration Experiments...

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