Sula Wolff
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Sulammith (Sula) Wolff FRCP FRCPysch (1 March 1924 – 21 September 2009) was a prominent and pioneering British child psychiatrist.[2] She was amongst the first in her field to identify and define the characteristics of children on the autistic spectrum and establish the genetic component of the condition.[2] Her work focused principally on a group of socially withdrawn, eccentric and schizoid children which she followed for over 20 years.[3]
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Sula Wolff | |
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Born | Sulammith Wolff (1924-03-01)1 March 1924 |
Died | 21 September 2009(2009-09-21) (aged 85) |
Nationality | British |
Education | University of Oxford |
Occupation(s) | physician, author |
Relatives | Henry Walton (husband)[1] |
Medical career | |
Profession | child psychiatrist, medical author |
Sub-specialties | autism |
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In 1996, she translated a 1925 landmark paper that had been written in Russian by Grunya Sukhareva, and which may be the earliest description of autistic symptoms in children.[4]