Otto Herbert Wolff

Wolff was born the younger of two boys. Wolff's British father, Herbert Arnold Jacob Wolff, was a GP, who was born in Manchester to a British mother and his mother was Anna Samson, was the daughter of a lawyer. Wolff therefore had dual nationality. Herbert Wolff was a doctor, who served in the German Army during World War I, and during the interwar period, lived as a comfortable family in Germany. Wolff's early schooling took place in Hamburg, and despite his Jewish background, was well received by his classmates. However, when he turned 16, Wolff was sent to London to study at a Cram school, so that he could earn a place at Cambridge University to study Medicine, a position his brother Heinz already held. In 1937, the whole family emigrated to England, but upon arriving, his father realised that his medical degree from the University of Strasbourg was not recognised in the UK. So Herbert Arnold Jacob Wolff studied medicine at School of Medical Sciences, University of Manchester while both his sons studied medicine in Cambridge. Wolff earned a place at Peterhouse college. ==Career==

Wolff started his clinical career at University College Hospital, In 1965, Wolff moved to London and was appointed the second Nuffield Professor of Child Health at the Institute of Child Health and consultant paediatrician at Great Ormond Street Hospital and the University of London. The previous Nuffield Professor was Sir Alan Moncrieff. ==Awards and honours==

Wolff was Knighted in 1985 with a CBE. In 1985 Wolff was awarded the Dawson Williams Memorial Prize from the British Medical Association, and in 1986 the medal of the Association Française pour le Dépistage et le Prévention des Maladies Métaboliques et des Handicaps de l’Enfant. 1987 brought the Harding Award from the Action Research for the Crippled Child, later the Action Medical Research. Wolff was awarded the prestigious James Spence Medal in 1988, by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. ==Bibliography==