How the Nazis Stymied Alzheimer’s Disease Research
Psychology Today | 28.06.2026 02:12
German psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer is widely credited with having identified the eponymous disease. However, a lesser-known Czech scientist, Oskar Fischer, separately identified the disease in a 1907 publication, the same year that Alzheimer’s findings were published. Why was Fischer not recognized for the discovery along with Alzheimer?
