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Alfons Maria Jakob

Alfons Maria Jakob (1884-1931) was a German neurologist. He was the first to recognize and describe Alper's disease[?] and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (the latter with Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt) and helped greatly in the description of various other neurological illnesses.

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