Edith Potter
Edith Louise Potter (1901 - 1993) was an American pediatric pathologist. Potter facies (1946); Potter syndrome; Potter syndrome; Potter sequence; and the Potter classification of polycystic kidney disease (1964)
Category Basic Science
Maud Menten
Maud Leonora Menten (1879 - 1960) was a Canadian pathologist, biochemical researcher and physician. Michaelis-Menten equation 1913
Maria Dąbska
Maria Magdalena Dąbska (1921 - 2014) was a Polish pathologist. Dąbska tumor (1969) is the only cutaneous tumour named after a female pathologist.
Emma Call
Emma Louise Call (1847 - 1937) was an American physician and obstetrician. Call-Exner bodies (1875)
Winifred Ashby
Winifred Mayer Ashby (1879 - 1975) was an English born, American pathologist, pianist and medical researcher. Ashby technique (1919)
Ella H. Oppenheimer
Ella Hutzler Oppenheimer (1897 - 1981) was an American pediatric pathologist and amateur conchologist. Landing-Oppenheimer syndrome (1959)
Gladys Dick
Gladys Rowena Henry Dick (1881 - 1963) was an American physician, pathologist and vaccinologist. Dick test (1924) in scarlet fever
Paul Langerhans
Paul Wilhelm Heinrich Langerhans (1847 - 1888) was a German pathologist, physiologist and biologist. Langerhans cell (1868) of the immune system, and islets of Langerhans (1869) in the pancreas
Freida Young
Freida 'Yarmalinsky' Young (1910 - 2004) was an English physician and pathologist. Dyke-Young anaemia (1938)
De-eponymising anatomical terminology
To evaluate the hypothesis that 'There is ALWAYS an alternative to the dead man's name for body parts' and create a database to facilitate the de-eponymification of anatomic terminology
Angelo Mosso
Angelo Mosso (1846-1910) was an Italian physiologist, archaeologist, politician, mountain climber and teacher.
Myrtelle Canavan
Myrtelle May Canavan (1879 - 1953) was an American neuropathologist. Canavan disease (1931)