Louis Reichardt

Louis French Reichardt is a noted American neuroscientist and mountaineer, the first American to summit both Everest and K2. He was also director of the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative, the largest non-federal supporter of scientific research into autism spectrum disorders and is an emeritus professor of physiology and biochemistry/biophysics at UCSF, where he studied neuroscience. The character of Harold Jameson, U.C.S.F. biophysicist and mountaineer in the film K2, is based on Reichardt, though the events of his actual 1978 K2 attempt with Jim Wickwire bear little resemblance to the plot of the film.

4 June 1942

Born on the same birth date (4 June 1942): Bill Rowe

Born on the same birth day (4 June): Apollon Maykov • Dennis Weaver • Enrico Rossi Chauvenet • John Harvard (politician) • Leon Botha • Morgana King • Oliver Nelson • Philippa of England • Rajiv van La Parra • Richie Hawtin • Roger Ball (musician)

Born in the same month (June 1942): Anton Burghardt • Bill Rowe • Brian Wilson • Chantal Goya • Chris Hani • Flaviano Vicentini • Frank Zane • Gordon Burns • Ian Greenberg • Len Barry • Mike Willesee • Mohamed ElBaradei • Neil Trudinger • Nikos Konstantopoulos • Pat Hutchins • Willis Reed