Bronislaw Onuf-Onufrowicz (July 4, 1863 in – December 29, 1928 in
Rutherford, New Jersey) was a
Russian-born American neurologist of Polish descent.
He was born in Yeniseysk,
Russia, in 1863, as the son of the physician Adam Onufrowicz and Maria.
[Matrikeledition der Universität Zürich]
He attended ''
Industrieschule Zürich'' and later studied medicine at the
Zurich University. He was a pupil of
August Forel
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. Circa 1890 he emigrated to USA. He worked in
Pathological Institute of NY State Hospitals under the directorship of
Ira Van Gieson
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Ira was born in Long Island in 1866, as the son of Dr. Ransford Everett Van Gieson (1836 ...
and later became lecturer in NY Polyclinic. From 1899, he worked in
St. Catherine Hospital, NY. Later he practised in
Craig Colony for Epileptics
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History
Situated at a former Shaker colony, the facility was established in 1896 on . Its inspiration was the colony at Bielefeld, ...
in
Sonyea
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History
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, NY. In the 1920s, he was a consulting neurologist at U.S. Marine Hospital 43, located on
Ellis Island. He was a member and vice-president of
New York Psychoanalytic Society, member of
American Neurological Association (since 1895), secretary and vice-president of the
New York Neurological Society
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.
[Frederick Tilney, Smith Ely Jelliffe: Semi-centennial Anniversary Volume of the American Neurological Association. American Neurological Association (1924)]
He is best known for his discovery of group of neurons in
spinal cord,
Onuf's nucleus
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1863 births
1929 deaths
American anatomists
American neurologists
American people of Polish descent
American people of Russian descent