Walter Stoeckel
Walter Stoeckel (1871–1961), German gynaecologist who advanced caudal epidural analgesia in labour (1909) and shaped radical vaginal surgery and teaching.
Category Anaesthesiology
William T. Lemmon
William Thomas Lemmon (1896-1974), surgeon who pioneered continuous spinal anaesthesia, and the Lemmon mattress
Alberto Gutierrez
Alberto Gutiérrez (1892–1945), Argentine surgeon who described the epidural “hanging drop” sign (1933) and founded Argentina’s anaesthesia journal.
Jess B. Weiss
Jess Bernard Weiss (1917 – 2007) was an American anesthesiologist. Best known for designing the Weiss needle for the placement of epidural catheters
Carl Koller
Carl (Karl) Koller (1857–1944), Austrian ophthalmologist who introduced cocaine as the first practical local anaesthetic in 1884, transforming surgery and enabling regional and neuraxial anaesthesia.
Crawford W. Long
Crawford W. Long (1815–1878), American physician who first used sulphuric ether for surgical anaesthesia on March 30, 1842
Jeremy Swan
Jeremy Swan (1922–2005), Irish-born cardiologist, co-invented the Swan-Ganz catheter and led advances in cardiac catheterisation and haemodynamic monitoring
William Ganz
William Ganz (1919–2009), Slovakian-born cardiologist, co-invented the Swan-Ganz catheter and pioneered thermodilution in cardiovascular research
Robert Berman
Robert Alvin Berman (1914-1999) was an American anesthesiologist and inventor including the Berman Airway, Quick Cuff and Respir-Aider
Michael Denborough
Michael Antony Denborough (1929 – 2014) was an Australian anaesthetist, academic, activist and medical researcher. First described malignant hyperthermia (Maladie de Denborough)
Jean-Athanase Sicard
Jean-Athanase Sicard (1872–1929): French neurologist; caudal epidural pioneer (1901), Lipiodol epidurography/myelography with Forestier, and Collet–Sicard syndrome.
William Bragg
Sir William Henry Bragg (1862–1942) was an English physicist, mathematician, and chemist. Bragg's Law, Bragg Spectrometer and Bragg-Paul Pulsator