Alfred Gordon (1874,

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– 1953) was a French-born

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remembered for describing

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. He studied medicine at the

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, qualifying in 1895. He worked in Paris,

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and

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, and emigrated to the United States in 1899. He lived in

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and was an instructor of neuropathology at the

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. His best-known work was ''On the Study of Reflexes''.

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