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Augusta Klumpke

Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke (1859 - 1927) was an American neurologist. Klumpke palsy (1885)

Sister Mary Joseph (Julia Dempsey) (1856 - 1939) was an American Catholic nun, nurse, and hospital administrator. Sister Mary Joseph sign (1928)

Dorothy Hansine Andersen (1901 - 1963) was an American pediatrician and pathologist. Andersen disease (1956); Cystic fibrosis (1938)

Winifred Mayer Ashby (1879 - 1975) was an English born, American pathologist, pianist and medical researcher. Ashby technique (1919)

Mathilda Mary Nelson (1926 – 2012), Human geneticist. Emery-Nelson syndrome (1970)

Ella Hutzler Oppenheimer (1897 - 1981) was an American pediatric pathologist and amateur conchologist. Landing-Oppenheimer syndrome (1959)

Judith Goslin Hall (1939 - ) pediatrician and clinical geneticist and dysmorphologist. Pallister-Hall syndrome (1980)

Margaret Doreen Baber (1910 - 1997) was a Welsh paediatrician. Baber syndrome (1956)

Ester Elisabeth Groenblad (1898 - 1970) was a Swedish ophthalmologist. Grönblad-Strandberg syndrome in 1929

John Hay (1873-1959) English physician first to record second degree atrioventricular (AV) block now better known as Mobitz type II AV block

Luigi Luciani (1840 – 1919) was an Italian neuroscientist. discovery referring to the phenomena as ‘Luciani periods‘ (Wenckebach AV block)

Augustus Desiré Waller (1856-1922) British physiologist, capillary electrometer to record the first human ECG, created first QTc calculation