Sulammith (Sula) Wolff FRCP FRCPysch (1 March 1924 – 21 September 2009) was a prominent and pioneering British child psychiatrist.
[2] She was amongst the first in her field to identify and define the characteristics of children on the autistic spectrum and establish the genetic component of the condition.
[3] In 1996, she translated a 1925 landmark paper that had been written in Russian by Grunya Sukhareva, and which may be the earliest description of autistic symptoms in children.
[4] She was born on 1 March 1924 in Berlin, Weimar Germany, to Friedel (née Saloman) and Walther Wolff, a patent lawyer.
[2] She undertook post-graduate training in psychiatry at Maudsley Hospital under psychiatrist Sir Aubrey Lewis, developing an interest in the psychological problems of children.