Erik Essen-Möller (February 4, 1901 – November 12, 1992) was a Swedish psychiatrist who served as Professor of Psychiatry at the

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, along with

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, Franz Kallmann in

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Eliot Slater Eliot Trevor Oakeshott Slater MD (28 August 1904 – 15 May 1983) was a British psychiatrist who was a pioneer in the field of the genetics of mental disorders. He held senior posts at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square, Lo ...

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Irving Gottesman Irving Isadore Gottesman (December 29, 1930 – June 29, 2016) was an American professor of psychology who devoted most of his career to the study of the genetics of schizophrenia. He wrote 17 books and more than 290 other publications, mostly ...

described him as one of the "founding fathers of modern, scientific psychiatric genetics".

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