Louis Wickham's grave in Neuilly-sur-Seine community cemetery Louis Frédéric Wickham (28 February 1861 in

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– 14 October 1913 in Mesnil-le-Roi) was a French

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and

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remembered for describing Wickham striae. He trained in medicine in Paris, receiving his

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in 1890. He studied

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at the ''Hôpital Saint-Louis'' in Paris before becoming physician at the ''Hôpital Saint-Lazare'' in 1897. After 1905 he worked on research into

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* French pathologists 1861 births 1913 deaths Burials at Neuilly-sur-Seine community cemetery {{France-med-bio-stub