Louis Wolff


Louis Wolff was an American cardiologist. He described the eponymously named Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome with Doctors John Parkinson and Paul Dudley White.

Personal Life

Louis Wolff married Alice Muscanto, a flute player born in Vilnius who played with her sisters and brothers in a touring musical ensemble. Louis was a concert-quality violinist who enjoyed accompanying his wife and her siblings in their apartment in Brookline, Massachusetts. Louis and Alice had two children, Lea, a French teacher for many years in Boston public schools, and Richard, also a cardiologist. Louis remarried after Alice's death, to Phyllis Raftell-Wolff, and together they had two more children, Sarah, an elementary school teacher, and Charles, a physician.

Education and career

Dr. Wolff graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Harvard Medical School; and he was a past president of the New England Cardiovascular Society. He was a clinical professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Death

Louis Wolff died on January 28, 1972.

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