Douglas Reye

Ralph Douglas Kenneth Reye ( "rye"; 5 April 1912 – 16 July 1977) was an Australian pathologist. In 1958, he discovered a muscular disease that was later named nemaline myopathy. A brain disease he and his colleagues described in 1963 is eponymously known as Reye syndrome.

Life and career Reye was born in Townsville, Queensland, Australia, in a German immigrant family. He attended Townsville Grammar School and the University of Sydney, where he completed undergraduate studies in medicine and was awarded a MBBS in 1937. He was later awarded an MD from the University of Sydney in 1945. He did not publish his discovery as it was argued that the microscopic observations could be artefacts.

Reye syndrome

In 1963, Reye, Graeme Morgan, and Jim Baral reported a kind of brain disease in The Lancet. The disease was later known as Reye syndrome.