Otto P. Hornstein
Otto Paul Hornstein (1926 - 2018) was a German dermatologist. Emeritus Prof at Erlangen-Nürnberg. Hornstein-Knickenberg syndrome 1975
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Georgina Hogg
Georgina Ruth Hogg (1916 - 2002) was a Canadian pathologist. Eponymously remembered for her work in describing the multiple benign skin tumors (fibrofolliculoma) of Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome in 1977
Wilma Canada
Wilma Jeanne Canada Diner (1926 - 2017) was an American radiologist. Cronkhite–Canada syndrome (1955)
Myrtelle Canavan
Myrtelle May Canavan (1879 - 1953) was an American neuropathologist. Canavan disease (1931)
John M. Opitz
John Marius Opitz (1936 - ) German-American medical geneticist. Opitz-Kaveggia syndrome (1974) and many more eponyms...
Elisabeth G. Kaveggia
Elisabeth Gathy Kaveggia (1926 - 2014) Hungarian born, American pediatrician and geneticist. Opitz-Kaveggia syndrome (1974) [FG syndrome]; Kaveggia syndrome (1975)
Charles Bonnet
Charles Bonnet (1720 - 1793) was a Swiss naturalist and philosopher. Described Charles Bonnet syndrome in 1760; visual hallucinations of his visually impaired grandfather
Richard Terry
Richard Barratt Terry (1914 - 1960) was an English Physician. Remembered for his description of Terry's Nails (1954); Red half-moon nails (1954)
Paul Bert
Paul Bert (1833 - 1886) was a French physiologist, zoologist and politician. Known for the Paul Bert Effect (1878)
Ann C.M. Smith
Ann C. Morrison Smith American geneticist. Smith-Magenis syndrome (1986)
R. Ellen Magenis
Ruth Ellen Magenis (1925 - 2014) was an American pediatrician, medical geneticist and cytogeneticist. Smith-Magenis syndrome (1986)
Susan C. Dees
Susan C. Dees (1909 - 2001) was an American pediatrician. First female division chief and first full professor at Duke Medical Center