Many of the men and women of science and medicine have been honored by having their names associated with the fruits of their labors. We have Paget disease of bone and breast (Sir James Paget 1814 – 1899), Pasteurization (Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895), Koch’s postulates (Robert Koch 1843 – 1910), and the Curie, a unit of radiation (Marie Curie 1867 – 1934). And then we have Phillipp Lenard, Hans Reiter, Eduard Pernkopf and Hans Asperger, all of whom made significant contributions to science and/or medicine, but whose names are all but forgotten. Lenard was awarded the Nobel Prize; Reiter and Asperger had syndromes named for them; and Pernkopf produced the most realistic anatomy atlas.
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