Wilhelm Falta (6 May 1875 – 15 July 1950) was a Bohemian physician who was a pioneer of diabetes research.
[1] Falta was born at Karlovy Vary, Bohemia to goldsmith Wilhelm and his wife Berta Seiffert.
He then worked at Vienna along with Carl von Noorden and Karel Frederik Wenckebach.
It was here that he began to examine metabolic diseases like diabetes mellitus.
Falta worked as a physician at the Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Spital where he established a laboratory that was destroyed during World War II.