Geoffrey Jefferson

Biography

• Born 1886
• 1909 – Medical degree, University of Manchester
• 1911 – Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons
• WW I – Anglo-Russian Hospital in Petrograd, Russia and Royal Army Medical Corps in France
• 1919 – Salford Royal Hospital
• 1925 – Performed the first successful embolectomy
• 1934 – Neurosurgeon at the Manchester Royal Infirmary
• 1939 – First chair of neurosurgery in Great Britain. University of Manchester.
• 1947 – Fellow of the Royal Society
• 1948 – Lister Medal with Lister Oration (1949) – Mind of the Mechanical Man
• Died 1961

Key Medical Attributions:

• More about medical contributions

Medical Eponyms

• Jefferson fracture (1920)
• Jefferson syndrome – disease picture associated with aneurysms of the internal carotid artery (1938)

Major Publications

• Jefferson G. Fracture of the atlas vertebra: report of four cases, and a review of those previously recorded. Br J Surg. 1920;7(27):407–22. [Jefferson fracture]
  
• Jefferson G. On the saccular aneurysms of the internal carotid artery in the cavernous sinus. Br J Surg. 1938;26: 267–302. [Jefferson syndrome]
  
• Jefferson G. The Mind of Mechanical Man. Br Med J. 1949 Jun 25; 1(4616): 1105–1110. [PMC2050428]

References

• Schurr P. So That Was Life – Biography of Sir Geoffrey Jefferson Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd (June 1997)
• Biography: Jefferson, Sir Geoffrey (1886 – 1961). Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows Online. Royal College of Surgeons of England.
  
• Horwitz NH. Library: historical perspective. Sir Geoffrey Jefferson (1886-1961). Neurosurgery. 1999 Jan;44(1):227-31. [PMID 9894988]
• Schurr PH. Sir Geoffrey Jefferson (1886-1961): a founder of British neurosurgery. J Med Biogr. 2000 Aug;8(3):156-61. [PMID 10954924]
• Schurr PH. Sir Geoffrey Jefferson 1886-1961. Br J Neurosurg. 1998 Jun;12(3):205-8. [PMID 11013680]
• Guthkelch AN. Geoffrey Jefferson (1886-1961), neurosurgeon, physiologist, philosopher. J Neurosurg. 1987 May;66(5):642-7. [PMID 3553452]
• Hunter TB, Peltier LF, Lund PJ. Radiologic history exhibit. Musculoskeletal eponyms: who are those guys? RadioGraphics 2000; 20: 819-36. [Full Text]