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Born June 13, 1894 • Austria
Died April 3, 1981 (aged 86) • Maryland
Subjects Of Study autism
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Bruno Bettelheim
American psychologist
Eugen Bleuler
Eugen Bleuler
Swiss psychiatrist
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Emil Kraepelin
German psychiatrist
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Jean-Étienne-Dominique Esquirol
French psychiatrist
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Amos Eaton
American botanist, geologist, and lawyer
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William Claire Menninger
American physician
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Karl Augustus Menninger
American physician
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Charles Frederick Menninger
American physician
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Henry Norris Russell
American astronomer
James Dobson
James Dobson
American religious leader
Noah Webster
Noah Webster
American lexicographer
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist
James D. Dana
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
Dow, Arthur Wesley: Lily
Arthur Wesley Dow
American artist and educator
Karl Deisseroth wearing a black tuxedo and bow tie, smiling at the camera with a blue and white event backdrop behind him.
Karl Deisseroth
American psychiatrist and bioengineer
Jean Tatlock
Jean Tatlock
American psychiatrist
James Watson, c. 1990
James Watson
American geneticist and biophysicist
Alfred Adler.
Alfred Adler
Austrian psychiatrist
“Father of American Botany”
Asa Gray
American botanist
Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Rush
United States statesman and physician