James Parkinson (April 11, 1755 - December 21, 1824) was an English physician, geologist, paleontologist, and political activist. He is most famous for his 1817 work, "An Essay on the Shaking Palsy", in which he was the first to describe paralysis agitans, a condition that would later be named Parkinson's Disease after him. Wikipedia
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