History
The bundle of Kent is eponymously named for British physiologist Albert Frank Stanley Kent (1863 – 1958), who described lateral branches in the atrioventricular groove of the monkey heart (erroneously believing these constituted the normal atrioventricular conduction system).
In 1915, Frank Norman Wilson (1890 – 1952) became the first to describe the condition which would later be referred to as Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome. Alfred M. Wedd (1887 – 1967) was the next to describe the condition in 1921. Cardiologists Louis Wolff (1898 – 1972), John Parkinson (1885 – 1976) and Paul Dudley White (1886 – 1973) are credited with the definitive description of the disorder in 1930.
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