Harry Klinefelter

Harry Fitch Klinefelter, Jun. ( born March 20, 1912 in Baltimore, † 20 February 1990) was an American endocrinologist.

Life

Klinefelter studied at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville before joining the Johns Hopkins Medical School, where he graduated in 1937. 1941-1942 he worked with Fuller Albright at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He then returned to the Johns Hopkins Medical School.

1943 to 1946 he served in the Army and then returned to Baltimore, where he was an associate professor of medicine in 1966.

Klinefelter dealt in particular with rheumatic diseases, endocrinology, and drug treatment of alcoholism.

He described in 1942 the first time the clinical signs of Klinefelter syndrome ( also Klinefelter Reifenstein -Albright syndrome), which was subsequently named after him.

Klinefelter himself described the syndrome named after him as a discovery Fuller Albright, the " only completely unselfish my name as first in the list of authors allowed ".