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Robbert de Winter

by Gary Zhang, last update February 17, 2019

Robbert J. de Winter (1958 – ) is a Dutch Professor of cardiology. Eponym: de Winter T wave – a new ECG Sign of Proximal LAD Occlusion

Benjamin Sacks

by Gary Zhang, last update February 1, 2019

Benjamin Sacks (1896 – 1971) was an American physician. 1924 – Along with Emanuel Libman defined atypical verrucous valvular lesions in patients with SLE (Libman–Sacks endocarditis)

Robert Meyer

by Dr Elliot Davis, last update February 15, 2019

Biography Born 11 January 1864, Hannover, Lower Saxony 1883 – 1888 Medical studies at Leipzig, then the University of Heidelberg, and finally the University of Strasbourg 1888 – 1894 Family medicine physician in Dedeleben, Sachsen 1894 – Gynaecological practice in Berlin 1908 – Professor of Gynaecology and Pathology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin 1912 – Director […]

Carl Weigert

by Dr Elliot Davis, last update February 13, 2019

Biography Born 19 March 1845 Münsterberg, Silesia 1862 – Commenced medical studies at the Universities of Breslau and Berlin 1868-1870 Assistant to Wilhelm Waldeyer (1836–1921), chair of pathological anatomy in Breslau 1879 – Professor Extraordinary of Pathological Anatomy at University of Lepzig Died 1904 Frankfurth, Germany Medical Eponyms Weigert-Meyer rule (1877) Key Medical Attributions Studied […]