or death within a period of 6–12 days. Capture and suicide Eppinger, 67, committed suicide after the war, reportedly using poison. This occurred a month before he was to be called to testify at the Nuremberg Trials. Much later it was discovered that he had an unclaimed Swiss bank account. Eponymous medical terms The following medical terms were named after Eppinger: Cauchois-Eppinger-Frugoni syndrome (renamed to portal vein thrombosis) Eppinger's spider naevus (Spider Angioma) From 1973, the Falk Foundation of Freiburg awarded an Eppinger Prize for outstanding contributions to liver research. However, when Eppinger's activities at Dachau were brought to public attention in 1984, the prize was cancelled. In 1976, the lunar crater 'Euclides D' was renamed by the IAU to honor Hans Eppinger. However, in 2002, after Eppinger's association with Nazi prison camps had been brought to the attention of the Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature by the Lunar Republic Society, the name was dropped. As of July 2009, the crater is once again officially listed as Euclides D. See also List of medical eponyms with Nazi associations References External links Hans Eppinger at "Who Named It?" The Ethics Of Using Medical Data From Nazi Experiments by Baruch C. Cohen. 1879 births 1946 suicides Austrian hepatologists Nazis who committed suicide in Austria Suicides by poison Dachau concentration camp personnel Physicians in the Nazi Party Aktion T4 Austrian people of German Bohemian descent Physicians from Prague Austrian people of Jewish descent People from the Kingdom of Bohemia Czech collaborators with Nazi Germany Romani genocide perpetrators