Albert Gombault

François Alexis Albert Gombault (2 October 1844 – 23 September 1904) was a French neurologist who was a native of Orléans.
He studied medicine in Paris, where he was a student and collaborator of Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893). From 1887, he was associated with the Hospice d'Ivry, and for years served as "chef de travaux" in the pathological anatomy laboratory of Victor André Cornil (1837–1908).
In 1880, Gombault published an early description involving a type of hypertrophic neuritis that was later known as Dejerine–Sottas syndrome. With Charcot, he performed important research of obstructive biliary cirrhosis. In 1877, he published "Etude sur la sclérose latérale amyotrophique", a study on "Charcot disease", better known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).