Naming of Alzheimer's Disease

Date: July 15, 1910 • Location: Berlin, Germany

In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.

Emil Wilhelm Georg Magnus Kraepelin was a German psychiatrist. Fellow psychiatrist Hans Eysenck's Encyclopedia of Psychology identified him as partially responsible for laying the foundations of modern scientific psychiatry, psychopharmacology, and psychiatric genetics.