Category Eponym
eponym LITFL 340

Adolf Weil

Adolf Weil (1848-1916) was a German physician. Eponymous affiliation with Weil disease (1886); discovery of an alpha-amino acid known as norleucine 1913

Karel Frederik Wenckebach (1864-1940) 680

Karel Wenckebach

Karel Frederik Wenckebach (1864-1940) Dutch physician. Eponymously affiliated with Wenckebach block (Mobitz type I AV block).

Fritz de Quervain (1868 – 1940) 340

Fritz de Quervain

Fritz de Quervain (1868 – 1940) was an Swiss surgeon. He described the chronic tendonitis that bears his name (De Quervain disease)