Category
page 1Autism researchers
Luc Montagnier
French virologist and joint recipient of the Nobel Prize of Physiology or Medicine (2008)
Niko Tinbergen
Dutch Zoologist, ethologist (1907-1988)
Hans Asperger
Austrian pediatrician, medical theorist, and medical professor (1906-1980)
Thomas Sowell
American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author

Bruno Bettelheim
Austrian-American child psychologist and writer (1903–1990)
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Indian-American neuroscientist

Leo Kanner
Jewish-American physician and psychiatrist (1894-1981)
Simon Baron-Cohen
British psychologist and author
Grunya Sukhareva
Ukrainian-Russian psychiatrist and university teacher (1891-1981)
Uta Frith
German developmental psychologist
Lorna Wing
British autism researcher (1928–2014)
Donna Williams
Australian writer, artist, singer-songwriter, screenwriter and sculptor
Tony Attwood
British psychologist
Alfred A. Tomatis
Otolaryngologist and inventor (1920–2001)
Gunilla Gerland
Swedish author, lecturer and debater on the topic of Asperger syndrome
Isabelle Rapin
Autism researcher
Lauretta Bender
American neuropsychiatrist (1897–1987)
Michael Rutter
British psychiatrist (1933–2021)

Bernard Rimland
American psychologist (1928–2006)
Robert Cade
American medical doctor, nephrologist, research scientist, inventor of Gatorade (1927–2007)
Eric Schopler
American pioneer of autism research (1927-2006)

Ole Ivar Løvaas
Norwegian-American psychologist (1927-2010)
Françoise Brauner
French-Austrian pediatrician and child psychiatrist (1911-2000)
Christopher Gillberg
Swedish psychiatrist
Jeff Bradstreet
physician and researcher
Mark Robin Geier
American geneticist (1948–2025)
Frances Tustin
British psychotherapist
Boyd E. Haley
American chemist
Michael Fitzgerald
Irish psychiatrist and academic
Sula Wolff
British child psychiatrist (1924-2009)
Michelle Dawson
Canadian autism researcher
Theo Peeters
Belgian neurolinguist

Christopher Bollas
British American born psychoanalyst and writer
Francesca Happé
British neuroscientist (1967-)
Paul Patterson
neuroscientist (1943-2014)
Richard Deth
American pharmacologist