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Margot Noack
German orthopaedist, born 1909, Berlin.
Associated eponyms:
Pfeiffer's syndrome (Rudolf Arthur Pfeiffer)
A congenital syndrome characterized by craniostenosis, abnormal skull shape, facial anomalies, syndactyly of hands and feet, and broad thumbs and great toes.
Biography:
Margot Noack initially worked as a technologist before commencing medical studies and she obtained her degree at the University of Berlin in 1939. Noack trained in paediatrics and after holding hospital appointments in Stralsund and Rostock, moved to Saarbrücken, the West Germany, in 1957. She married in 1959 and thereafter practised as Dr. M. Oegg, in Muhldorf, Inn-Bayern. She retired in 1978.
Bibliography:
- Peter Beighton & Gretha Beighton:
M. Noack. In: The Man Behind the Syndrome. Springer Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg, 1986, page 221.
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