Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke (15 October 1859 – 5 November 1927) was an American-born French medical doctor known for her work in neuroanatomy.
Their mother took the family to Europe for eighteen months to find physicians for Anna, leaving their father behind in San Francisco.
[4] Klumpke trained at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris, while taking science classes at the Sorbonne and working at the laboratories of the Museum of Natural History.
The head of the clinic was Joseph Jules Dejerine, a scientist ten years her senior whom she would later marry.
[4] In 1882, Blanche Edwards-Pillet petitioned before the Paris municipal council, and finally the rules were changed, allowing women to compete for externships.
[2] During her externship, Klumpke attended neurology courses with Jean-Martin Charcot[4][2] and began to study the anatomy of the brachial plexus under her mentor, Alfred Vulpian.
Etude clinique et anatomo-pathologique, About polyneuritis in general, and Saturnian palsies and atrophies in particular: Clinical and anatomopathological study, was accepted in 1889, and won the silver medal at the Paris Faculty of Medicine and the 1890 Lallemand Prize of the Academy of Sciences.
Together, they worked to determine and describe the anatomy of the central and peripheral nervous systems, along with the neuropathology of injury.
While Dejerine-Klumpke, as she was now known, was listed as a collaborator on Dejerine's seminal two-volume textbook of neuroanatomy Anatomie des Centres Nerveux, and his second textbook Sémiologie des affections du système nerveux, his student André Thomas wrote that she was involved in every aspect, including in conception and synthesis of the data.