Year 2020
Prof. Dr. Ruth Illig (1924 – 2017) 340

Ruth Illig

Ruth Illig (1924 - 2017) was a German pediatric endocrinologist. Neonatal screening for congenital hypothyroidism; Illig syndrome (1970)

Marcus Gerbezius

Marcus Gerbezius (1658-1718) was a Slovenian physician. Provided first description of Stokes-Adams syndrome in 1717

eponym LITFL 340

Thomas Bartholin

Thomas Bartholin (1616 – 1680) was a Danish physician, mathematician and theologian. Trisomy 13 (Bartholin-Patau syndrome - 1657), Refrigeration anaesthesia (1661)

Thomas Cooley

Thomas Benton Cooley (1871 - 1945) was an American pediatrician and haematologist. Cooley Anemia (1925) [Thalassemia major]

Ida Bianco Silverstroni (1917 - 2006) 340

Ida Bianco

Ida Bianco Silverstroni (1917 - 2006) was an Italian physician and haematologist. Silvestroni-Bianco anaemia (1948); heterozygotous thalassaemia

Petrus Waardenburg

Petrus Johannes Waardenburg (1886 - 1979) was a Dutch ophthalmologist and geneticist. Waardenburg syndrome (1951); Waardenburg-Jonkers disease (1961); and Shah-Waardenburg syndrome (1981)