Henry Willy Engler Golovchenko (born 1946 in Paysandú) is a Uruguayan neuroscientist.
[1] Student at the University of the Republic, he obtained his BA-level degree in 1970.
For that reason he spent 13 years in jail during the civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay.
Later he emigrated to Sweden,[2] where he obtained his PhD at the University of Uppsala.
[1] In 2002 he injected for the first time in healthy volunteers and Alzheimer's patients the substance PIB (Pittsburgh compound B) to detect amyloid plaques in the brain.