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André Léri
André Léri (1875–1930) was a French neurologist of the Paris school, a pupil of Joseph Babinski and Pierre Marie, known for Léri's sign, Léri pleonosteosis, and Léri-Weill dyschondrosteosis.
Charles Gilbert Chaddock
Charles Gilbert Chaddock (1861–1936) was an American neurologist in St Louis, Missouri, who described the Chaddock reflex in 1911 and introduced Babinski's sign to the United States in 1899.
Georges de Morsier
Georges de Morsier (1894–1982) was a Swiss neurologist in Geneva who created Switzerland's first hospital neurology unit and is remembered for de Morsier syndrome, the older name for septo-optic dysplasia.
Gordon Morgan Holmes
Gordon Morgan Holmes was an Irish neurologist at Queen Square, London, who defined the clinical signs of cerebellar disease and mapped the human visual cortex.
Gustave Roussy
Gustave Samuel Roussy (1874–1948) was a Swiss-born French neurologist and pathologist who described Dejerine-Roussy syndrome and founded the Institut Gustave Roussy cancer center in Villejuif.
Henry Head
Henry Head (1861–1940) was a British neurologist, physician to the London Hospital, and editor of Brain, known for Head's zones, dermatome maps, and studies of sensation and aphasia.
James Ramsay Hunt
James Ramsay Hunt was an American neurologist and Columbia University professor who described Ramsay Hunt syndrome type 2, herpes zoster oticus with facial paralysis, and died in 1937.
Jean Abadie
Jean Abadie (1873–1946) was a French neuropsychiatrist, professor of nervous and mental diseases at Bordeaux, remembered for Abadie's sign of tabes dorsalis, the painless pressure on the Achilles tendon.
Jean Lhermitte
Jean Lhermitte, full name Jacques Jean Lhermitte (1877–1959), was a French neurologist and neuropsychiatrist, son of the painter Léon Augustin Lhermitte, known for Lhermitte's sign and Lhermitte-Duclos disease.
Josef Gerstmann
Josef Gerstmann (1887–1969) was an Austrian-born American neurologist who described the cognitive tetrad Gerstmann syndrome and co-described the prion disease Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker; expelled from Vienna by the Nazis in 1938, he rebuilt his career in New York.
Jules Froment
Jules Froment (1878–1946) was a French neurologist who spent his career at the Lyon hospitals, known for Froment's sign of ulnar nerve palsy and work with Joseph Babinski on war neurology.
Jules Tinel
Jules Tinel (1879–1952) was a French neurologist who described the Tinel sign in 1915, tingling felt when an injured nerve is pressed, and first described paroxysmal hypertension in pheochromocytoma.
Łucja Frey
Łucja Frey (Łucja Frey-Gottesman; 1889–1942) was a Polish neurologist of Jewish origin whose 1923 description of gustatory sweating gave Frey's syndrome its name and first explanation.
Max Nonne
Max Nonne (1861–1959) was a German neurologist in Hamburg who built the Eppendorf neurological university clinic, introduced the Nonne-Apelt cerebrospinal-fluid test, and dominated the World War I debate on war neuroses.
Otfrid Foerster
Otfrid Foerster (1873–1941) was a German neurologist and self-taught neurosurgeon in Breslau who devised posterior rhizotomy for spasticity, mapped the human dermatomes, and pioneered awake cortical stimulation surgery for epilepsy.
Paul Robert Bing
Paul Robert Bing (1878–1956) was a German-Swiss neurologist who founded modern neurology in Basel, wrote influential neurology textbooks, and gave his name to Bing's reflex and the Bing-Horton syndrome.
Pierre Mollaret
Pierre Mollaret (1898–1987) was a French physician at the Salpêtrière and Pasteur Institute, remembered for Mollaret's meningitis, the Guillain–Mollaret triangle, and first describing brain death.
Rezső Bálint (Hungarian neurologist)
Rezső Bálint, also known as Rudolf Bálint, was a Hungarian neurologist at the University of Budapest whose 1909 case report gave the name to Bálint syndrome.
Robert Foster Kennedy
Robert Foster Kennedy (1884–1952) was a Belfast-born neurologist who described Foster Kennedy syndrome in 1911, served in World War I, and led neurology at Cornell and Bellevue Hospital in New York.
William John Adie
William John Adie (1886–1935) was a British neurologist, born in Geelong, Australia, known for describing Adie's syndrome of tonic pupils with absent tendon reflexes in 1932.