Biography Born Died Medical Eponyms Key Medical Contributions Major Publications Controversies References Oven V. Piorry. Biographies des célébrités médicales, . 1867 Sakula A. Pierre Adolphe Piorry (1794-1879): pioneer of percussion and pleximetry. Thorax. 1979; 34(5): 575-581.
Biography Born 28 September 1839 in Usingen, Germany Studied medicine at the Universities of Heidelburg; Gottingen, under Friedrich Henle (1809–1885); Berlin, under Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902); and Würzburg, under Friedrich von Recklinghausen (1833–1910). 1864 – Graduated medical studies from Würzburg, with…
Reed–Sternberg cells: multinucleate, giant cells found in individuals with Hodgkin lymphoma. Carl Sternberg (1898) and Dorothy Reed (1902)
Georges C.Noulis (1849-1919). Greek surgeon credited as the first to describe testing the functional integrity of the ACL and knee ligaments (Lachman Test)
Physical examination finding seen in patients with proximal weakness of the extensor muscles of the thighs and is most often associated with Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Jacqueline Anne Noonan (1921 - ) American paediatric cardiologist. Noonan syndrome (1968)
John Langdon Haydon Langdon-Down (1828 - 1896) was an English
Lachman test is a clinical test used to diagnose injury of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). Eponymised to John W Lachman, first described by GC Noulis
John W Lachman (1919 – 2007) was an American Orthopedic Surgeon. Eponymously associated with the Lachman test of knee ligament stability
Mary Frances Lyon (1925–2014) was an English geneticist, best known for her discovery of X-chromosome inactivation. Lyonisation.
Biography Born August 2, 1924 in Lima, Peru 1951 – Bachelors degree in medicine, Universidad Mayor de San Marcos 1959 – MD, Universidad Mayor de San Marcos 1961 – Co-founded the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia 1963-1965 Minister of Public Health,…
Biography Born 1 May 1852, Petilla de Aragón, Spain 1906 – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Died 17 October 1934, Madrid, Spain Medical Eponyms Anatomical eponyms Major Publications Ramón y Cajal S. Manual de histología normal y técnica micrográfica.…