Three world-famous ophthalmologists from Austria are as follows: 1. Professor and Doctor Pillat was the first Austrian ophthalologist to describe iris nodules of leprosy known as pillat nodiles of leprosy 2 Goldenhar another Austrian opthalmologist was the first ophthalmologist who in 1850 described syndrome complex of cong limbal dermiod with an associated congenital presence of preauricular appendage was named after his name as goldenhars syndrmme 3.

Purtscher's another Austrian ophthalmologist descibed Purtscher's retinopathy in 1912 after abdominal and thoraxix trauma 11 bilworth was a famous Austrian surgeon and Robert Koch another Austrian physician described KOCH postulates