They were named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Claude Bernard, French physiologist who made important contributions to the understanding of digestion, function of the liver and the methods of experimental medicine.
Historian I. Bernard Cohen of Harvard University called Bernard "one of the greatest of all men of science".
The Association awards four major prizes annually: the Camillo Golgi Prize, the Claude Bernard Medal, the Minkowski Prize and the Albert Renold Prize Lecture.
In France and Italy, Claude Bernard is also eponymized with the condition ("Claude Bernard-Horner syndrome").
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Later he had a private practice in Kassel, and travelled extensively throughout Europe, particularly Paris, where he collaborated with physicians that included Claude Bernard (1813–1873), Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893) and Jean Zuléma Amussat (1796–1856).
The new research was presented by Dr. Gabriel Steg of the Hospital Bichat-Claude Bernard in Paris at a meeting of the European Society of Cardiology in Vienna.