Hubert Airy

Hubert Airy (June 14, 1838 – June 1, 1903) was an English physician^[1] who was the pioneer in the study of a migraine.^[2] He was the son of Sir George Airy, Astronomer Royal. He has two portraits in the National Portrait Gallery.^[3]

Airy was one of the first to describe the common visual aura, which is the second stage in an outbreak of a migraine attack and precede a headache, and also coined the term scintillating scotoma for it.^{[citation needed]}