Gustav Alexander (1873 – 12 April 1932) was an

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

otolaryngologist Otorhinolaryngology ( , abbreviated ORL and also known as otolaryngology, otolaryngology–head and neck surgery (ORL–H&N or OHNS), or ear, nose, and throat (ENT)) is a surgical subspeciality within medicine that deals with the surgical a ...

remembered for describing

Alexander's law Alexander's law refers to gaze-evoked nystagmus that occurs after an acute unilateral vestibular loss. It was first described in 1912 and has three elements to explain how the vestibulo-ocular reflex responds to an acute vestibular insult. The firs ...

. He was the director of the Department of Otology of the ''Wiener Allgemeine Poliklinik'' from 1917 until his death.''British Medical Journal'' Aug 13 1932, page 334.
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Leo Alexander Leo Alexander (October 11, 1905 – July 20, 1985) was an American psychiatrist, neurologist, educator, and author, of History of the Jews in Austria, Austrian-Jewish origin. He was a key medical advisor during the Nuremberg Trials. Alexander wr ...

. He was assassinated on the street between his home and the Poliklinik by Johann Sokoup, a Czechoslovakian former patient who had tried to assassinate him 22 years earlier.''The Laryngoscope'' 42; 5: 404-409.
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