Bernard Sachs died in 1944.
It was named after doctors Warren Tay and Bernard Sachs.
Symptoms of Tay-Sachs disease were discovered by Warren Tay in 1881 and Bernard Sachs wrote about it in general in 1887. (this is a disease which affects the brain and eventually kills the person who has it.) Infants that have Tay-Sachs normally die by age 5. They start to lose their functions by the age of 8 months!! Discovered in 1881.
Curt Sachs died in 1959.
Maurice Sachs died in 1945.
Lenny Sachs died in 1942.
Senior Sachs died in 1892.
Johann Sachs died in 1910.
Hanns Sachs died in 1947.
Abraham Sachs died in 1983.
Alexander Sachs died in 1973.
''Tay-Sachs'' was named after Warren Tay, an ophthalmologist who discovered the occurring red spot in the retina in 1881, and Bernard Sachs, who described the cellular changes related to this disease in 1887.
Hans Sachs - serologist - died in 1945.