Julius Wagner-Jauregg

Julius Wagner-Jauregg was an Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist who served as a professor at the University of Vienna and directed the psychiatric clinic at the Steinhof asylum. He is best known for developing pyrotherapy, specifically the treatment of general paresis caused by neurosyphilis through deliberate inoculation with malaria parasites, a discovery that earned him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1927. He died in 1940 in Vienna.