Arthur Fallot

Étienne-Louis Arthur Fallot (September 29, 1850, Sète, Hérault – April 30, 1911) was a French physician.Fallot attended medical school in Montpellier in 1867. While in residence in Marseille he wrote a thesis on pneumothorax. In 1888 he was made Professor of Hygiene and Legal Medicine in Marseille. In 1888 Fallot described in detail the four anatomical characteristics of tetralogy of Fallot, a congenital heart defect responsible for blue baby syndrome.