Sula Wolff

Sulammith (Sula) Wolff FRCP FRCPysch (1 March 1924 – 21 September 2009) was a prominent and pioneering British child psychiatrist. She was amongst the first in her field to identify and define the characteristics of children on the autistic spectrum and establish the genetic component of the condition. Her work focused principally on a group of socially withdrawn, eccentric and schizoid children which she followed for over 20 years.

In 1996, she translated a 1925 landmark paper that had been written in Russian by Grunya Sukhareva, and which may be the earliest description of autistic symptoms in children. Provided by Wikipedia