AloisAlzheimer was the first to find the strange plaques and tangles characteristic of the disease in the brain of one of his patients during an autopsy...
AloisAlzheimer was a German neurologist, and he did describe both the first patient and the pathology that we use to this day to diagnose the disease after the person has died...
O n 14 June 1864, AloisAlzheimer was born to the notary Eduard Alzheimer and his second wife Theresia in a house on Ochsenfurter Strasse 15a in Marktbreit, Germany...