Erik Essen-Möller (February 4, 1901 – November 12, 1992) was a Swedish psychiatrist who served as Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Lund. He was one of the pioneers of research in the field of psychiatric genetics, along with Ernst Rüdin in Munich, Germany, Franz Kallmann in New York City, New York, United States, and Eliot Slater in London, England.[1] Irving Gottesman described him as one of the "founding fathers of modern, scientific psychiatric genetics".[2]

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  1. ^ Roelcke, Volker (March 2019). "Eugenic concerns, scientific practices: international relations in the establishment of psychiatric genetics in Germany, Britain, the USA and Scandinavia, c .1910–60". History of Psychiatry. 30 (1): 19–37. doi:10.1177/0957154X18808666. ISSN 0957-154X. PMID 30382757.
  2. ^ Gottesman, Irving I. (1993-05-01). "In memoriam: Erik Essen-Möller (1901-1992)". American Journal of Medical Genetics. 48 (1): 4–5. doi:10.1002/ajmg.1320480103. ISSN 0148-7299.

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