Alf Brodal

Alf Brodal (25 January 1910 – 29 February 1988) was a Norwegian professor of anatomy.

He was born in Kristiania as a son of the doctor of engineering Peter Brodal (1872–1935) and his wife Helene Kathrine Obenauer (1879–1934).

degree in 1940 on the thesis Experimentelle Untersuchungen über die olivocerebellare Lokalisation.

He was a specialist in neuroanatomy, and was particularly interested in the cerebellum, the reticular substance and the vestibular nuclei.

[1] He chaired the editorial committee of the Norwegian journal Tidsskrift for Den norske Lægeforening from 1959 to 1975.