Richardson, Edward Peirson, 1918-

Edward Peirson Richardson, Jr. (1918-1998), AB, 1939, Harvard College; MD, 1943, Harvard Medical School, was Bullard Professor of Neuropathology at Harvard Medical School, and a neuropathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital where he was the first to describe a number of brain disorders. In 1949, Richardson became assistant to Dr. Charles S. Kubik at Massachusetts General Hospital, whom he succeeded as Chief Neuropathologist in 1951; he was director of the Kubik Laboratory for Neuropathology from 1954 to 1989. Richardson was appointed assistant professor at Harvard Medical School in 1949, and eventually became Bullard Professor of Neuropathology in 1984. Richardson's contributions to neuropathology included original description of several brain disorders, including progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, and research on Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Huntington's and Alzheimer's diseases, systemic lupus erythematosus, the leukodystrophies, and other demyelinating and neurodegenerative disorders.

From the description of Papers, 1898-1998. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 82863412

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