Pierre Marie

Pierre Marie (born Sept. 9, 1853, Paris—died April 13, 1940, Paris) was a French neurologist whose discovery that growth disorders are caused by pituitary disease contributed to the modern science of endocrinology. A student of the neurologist Jean Charcot at the Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris (1885), Marie published the first description of acromegaly (1886), a condition characterized by overgrowth of bone tissue such as that of the nose, jaws, fingers, and toes, and traced the disease...