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Louis Wolff

Born  1898
Died  1972

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American cardiologist, born 1898, Boston; died June 28, 1972.

Biography of Louis Wolff

Louis Wolff qualified in medicine at Harvard in 1922. He spent his internship at the Massachusetts General Hospital and subsequently specialised in cardiology. He was a visiting physician and chief of the electrocardiographic laboratory at the Beth Israel Hospital.

Obituary in Journal of the American Medical Association, Chicago, 1972, 220: 1755.

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