Godfrey Hounsfield
Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield (1919-2004) was an English electrical engineer, Invention of computed tomography and Hounsfield Units (HU)
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Róbert Bárány
Róbert Bárány (1876 - 1936) was an Austro-Hungarian otologist. Nobel prize in for his "work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus."
Wilhelm Röntgen
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845 – 1923) was a German physicist. 8 November 1895 produced electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays (Röntgen rays).
Dickinson W. Richards
Dickinson Woodruff Richards, Jr. (1895 - 1973) Nobel Laureate and celebrated American Physician. Famously known for his work in development of cardiac catherisation and physiology with André Frédéric Cournand and Werner Theodore Otto Forßman.
Werner Forssmann
Werner Theodore Otto Forßman (1904 - 1979) was a German Doctor, Nobel Laureate and a pioneer of interventional cardiology.
Gerty Cori
Gerty Theresa (née Radnitz) Cori (1896 - 1957) was a Czech-born American biochemist. Cori cycle (1929), Cori ester (1936), Nobel prize (1947)
Emil Theodor Kocher
Emil Theodor Kocher (1841 – 1917) was a Swiss Surgeon. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1909. 5,000 thyroid excisions. Shoulder reduction
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Biography Medical Eponyms Interstitial Cell of Cajal (ICC): Specialized, pacemaker cells in the gastrointestinal tract that mediate neurotransmission between autonomic motor neurons and smooth muscle cells. Cajal-Retzius Cells: Specialized neurons that appear early in development and are crucial for forming the laminated structure…
Camillo Golgi
Biography Medical Eponyms Anatomical eponyms Golgi apparatus (or Golgi complex/body): Discovered in 1898, this organelle is a series of stacked membranes (cisternae) involved in packaging and exporting proteins and lipids. It was originally named apparato reticolare interno (internal reticular apparatus). Golgi tendon organ: A…
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Ronald Ross
Major Ronald Ross (1857-1932) was the epitome of the Victorian bug hunters, born in the Himalayas in the heyday of the British Empire, he returned to his roots as a physician where he pursued Manson and Laveran’s hypothesis that the…
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