Basic and Clinical Immunology by Names

Hundreds of eponyms are used within the field of immunology—Petri dish, Crohn’s disease, Bence Jones protein, Kupffer cells, Freund''s adjuvant, Ouchterlony immunodiffusion, to name just a few—but most of us don''t know much about the individuals who gave their names to these terms. Where were they born and educated, what other accomplishments are they credited with, why has history chosen to reme...