Kinnier Wilson

Biographical Timeline

• Born on December 6, 1878 New Jersey, United States
• Died on May 12, 1937, London

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Medical Eponyms

Wilson disease (1912)

Wilson’s pronator sign

Foville-Wilson syndrome (1906)

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Controversies

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Major Publications

• Wilson SAK. Progressive lenticular degeneration: a familial nervous disease associated with cirrhosis of the liver. Brain 1912; 34(4): 295-507. [Wilson disease]
• Wilson SAK. Case of disseminated sclerosis, with weakness of each internal rectus and nystagmus, and lateral deviation limited to the outer eye. Brain, Oxford, 1906; 29(2): 298. [Foville-Wilson syndrome]

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References

Biography

• Martin JP. British neurology in the last fifty years: some personal experiences. Proc R Soc Med. 1971 Oct; 64(10): 1055-9. 
• Critchley M. Remembering Kinnier Wilson. Mov Disord. 1988;3(1):2-6. 
• Wilson JV. Memories of my father [Kinnier Wilson]. Mov Disord. 1988;3(1):7-9.
• Hoogenraad T. S. A. Kinnier Wilson (1878–1937). J Neurol 2001; 248: 71–72
• Reynolds EH. Kinnier Wilson and Sherrington. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2008 Apr; 79(4): 478-9
• Reynolds EH. Kinnier Wilson’s French connections. Rev Neurol (Paris). 2015 Jan;171(1):81-3. 

Eponymous Terms

• Foville ALF. Note sur une paralysie peu connue de certains muscles de l’oeil, et sa liaison avec quelques points de l’anatomie de la physiologie de la protubérance annulaire. Bulletins de la Société anatomique de Paris, 1858; 33: 393-414.
• S. A. Kinnier Wilson (1878-1937) Lenticular-hepatic degeneration. JAMA. 1968 Sep 16;205(12):871-2.
• Broussolle E, Trocello JM, Woimant F, Lachaux A, Quinn N. Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson. Wilson’s disease, Queen Square and neurology. Rev Neurol (Paris). 2013 Dec;169(12):927-35.
• Dooley JS. The history of Wilson disease. Clin Liver Dis (Hoboken). 2024 Jul 5;23(1):e0238.