James Parkinson
1755
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1824
country of citizenship: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
languages spoken, written or signed: English
occupation: physician, paleontologist, neurologist, botanist, geologist, politician, pharmacist, surgeon
James Parkinson (11 April 1755 – 21 December 1824) was an English surgeon, apothecary, geologist, palaeontologist and political activist. He is best known for his 1817 work An Essay on the Shaking Palsy, in which he was the first to describe "paralysis agitans", a condition that would later be renamed Parkinson's disease by Jean-Martin Charcot. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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