Rita G. Harper
Rita Gilman Harper (1934 - ) American pediatrician. Harper syndrome (1967) synonym for Seckel syndrome or microcephalic primordial dwarfism
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Greta Beighton
Greta Janet Beighton (1939 – 2017) was an English nurse and genetic researcher. Beighton score; Person behind the syndrome
Liliane Schnitzler
Liliane Schnitzler (1938 - ) French dermatologist. Schnitzler syndrome (1972, 1974)
Francoise Goutières
Françoise Goutières French pediatric neurologist. Aicardi-Goutières syndrome (1984)
Marlis Tolksdorf
Marlis Tolksdorf (1924 - 1997) German cytogeneticist. Eponymously remembered for her description of Wiedemann-Tolksdorf syndrome in 1973
Selma A. Myhre
Selma Ann (née Myhre) Hageman (1937 - 2012) was an American pediatrician. Myhre syndrome (1981)
Judith A. Diesendruck
Judith Abarbanel Diesendruck (1920 - 2007) was a Russian-American bacteriologist. Nelson-Diesendruck basal medium (1950)
Hermann Adolph Wülfing-Lüer
Hermann Adolph Wülfing-Lüer (1836 – 1910) German Surgical instrument manufacturer. His wife Jeanne Amélie Lüer invented the original Lüer syringe in 1895
Funtabulous International Women’s Day
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James Barry (Margaret Ann Bulkley)
Biography Born ‘Margaret Ann Bulkley’ Cork, Ireland 1809-1812 MD Edinburgh University 1813 – St Thomas Hospital, London; examined at the Royal College of Surgeons and recruited into the army Inspector-General of Hospitals Died 25 July 1865 Medical Eponyms Key Medical…