George Otto Emil Lignac (1891 - 1954) was a Dutch pathologist.

The disease Abderhalden-Kaufmann-Lignac syndrome is named for him.

Lignac was born in Java where his father worked as a civil servant. He studied at Leiden and then returned to the Dutch East Indies and taught pathology in Batavia.

He returned to The Netherlands and was appointed Professor of Pathology in Leiden in 1934.

Leiden published work on skin pigmentation, cysteine metabolism and the carcinogenic nature of benzol.

Lignac died in a plane crash at Shannon Airport in 1954.

References

• B.G. Firkin & J.A.Whitworth (1987). Dictionary of Medical Eponyms. Parthenon Publishing. ISBN 1-85070-333-7
• Who Named It?