Ludwig Pick (31 August 1868 – 3 February 1944) was a German pathologist born in Landsberg an der Warthe. In 1893, he earned his medical doctorate in Leipzig and subsequently practiced medicine at Leopold Landau's private Frauenklinik, where he remained until 1906. That same year, he became the director of the department of pathological anatomy at the city hospital Friedrichshain-Berlin. Later on, he was imprisoned by the Nazis and died on 3 February 1944 at the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp. Ludwig Pick made several contributions to academic pathology, particularly in the field of genitourinary diseases and the study of melanotic pigmentation. In 1912, he coined the term 'pheochromocytoma' to describe the chromaffin color change in tumor cells associated with adrenal medullary tumors.

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