John M. Opitz
John Marius Opitz (1936 - ) German-American medical geneticist. Opitz-Kaveggia syndrome (1974) and many more eponyms...
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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
Carol Wolcott
Carol Nancy Dettman Wolcott (1941 - 1994) was an American pediatrician. Wolcott-Rallison syndrome (WRS) in 1972
Robert C. Muehrcke
Robert C. Muehrcke (1921 – 2003) was an American physician, and pioneer in the field of nephrology. Eponym: Muehrcke lines (1956)
Raissa Nitabuch
Raissa Semenovna Nitabuch [Раиса Семеновна Нитабух] (1859 - ) was a Russian physician and pathologist. Nitabuch layer [Слой Нитабух] (1887)
John Hilton Edwards
John Hilton Edwards (1928 - 2007) was an English physician and medical geneticist. Edwards syndrome, Trisomy 18 in 1960
