Gordon Holmes
Irish neurologist Sir Gordon Holmes (1876–1965), pioneer of cerebellar and visual pathway research, key wartime studies, and enduring neurological eponym
Category Eponym
Bernhard Naunyn
German physician Bernhard Naunyn (1839–1925), pioneer of experimental medicine, defined acidosis, advanced diabetes and gallstone research, and co-founded Naunyn–Schmiedeberg’s Archives
Heinrich Quincke
German physician Heinrich Quincke (1842–1922) pioneered lumbar puncture and described Quincke’s pulse, oedema, triad, and more thus shaping modern clinical medicine
Stephen Stigler
Stephen Stigler, statistician and historian, coined Stigler’s Law of Eponymy and advanced the history of statistics through influential books and research
William Macewen
Scottish surgeon Sir William Macewen (1848–1924) pioneered neurosurgery, bone grafting, and antiseptic technique, transforming modern surgical practice
Léon Bouveret
Léon Bouveret (1850-1929) was a French internal medicine physician. Eponymous terms Maladie de Bouveret (1889) and Bouveret Syndrome (1895)
Ludwig Courvoisier
Ludwig Georg Courvoisier (1843-1918) was a Swiss surgeon, academic, and naturalist best remembered for Courvoisier’s sign / law (1890)
Morell Mackenzie
Sir Morell Mackenzie (1837–1892), pioneer of laryngology, founder of the Throat Hospital, author of the ‘laryngologist’s Bible’, and royal physician
Soma Weiss
Soma Weiss (1898-1942) was a Hungarian-born American physician. Mallory-Weiss Syndrome/lesion/tear and Charcot-Weiss-Baker Syndrome.
George Mallory
George Kenneth Mallory (1900–1986), American pathologist, co-described Mallory–Weiss syndrome and advanced cardiac, renal, and hepatic pathology
Philip Allison
Philip R. Allison (1907–1974), pioneering thoracic surgeon, defined reflux oesophagitis, advanced Barrett’s oesophagus, and led Oxford surgery
Norman Barrett
Norman Barrett (1903–1979), thoracic surgeon, pioneer of oesophageal surgery, first repair of Boerhaave’s syndrome, and namesake of Barrett’s oesophagus.