(1811) Scottish obstetrician James Young Simpson is born. He was very interested in the use of anesthesia for pregnancy and he also discovered the anesthetic properties of chloroform. (1896) American physicist and chemist Robert S. Mulliken is born. He is responsible for the early development of the molecular orbital theory, a theory which is used […]

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(1792) Estonian scientist and explorer Karl Ernst von Baer is born. He is known for discovering the mammalian egg cell and was the first person to view human ova. (1896) American physician Philip Showalter Hench is born. He shared the 1950 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his co-discovery of cortisone (a human hormone) […]

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(1899) Canadian medical scientist Charles Best is born. He was the co-creator of insulin. (1971) For the first time, doctors perform an abortion at the Mildred Huis in Arnhem.

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(1743) British naturalist and botanist Joseph Banks is born. He is known for introducing a number of plant species, including eucalyptus, to the Western world. (1933) American medical scientist Judah Folkman is born. He is best known for his research on tumor angiogenesis, the process by which a tumor attracts blood vessels to create a supply of […]

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(1603) Italian physician, philosopher, and botanist Andrea Cesalpino pass away. Along with classifying plants, he is known for theorizing the circulation of blood in the body. (1883) German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher Karl Jaspers is born. He studied a number of patients with mental health issues including delusions and hallucinations. (1924) South African American physicist Allan […]

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(1914) Italian American virologist Renato Dulbecco is born. He won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on oncoviruses, a type of virus that can cause cancer. (1936) American immunologist and microbiologist John Michael Bishop was born. He shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on […]

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(1892) American Neo-Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Harry Stack Sullivan was born. He believed that the personality lives in a complex of interpersonal relationships. (1895) Danish biochemist and physiologist Henrik Dam was born. He won the 1943 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery of vitamin K and its role in the human body. (1941) Canadian […]

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(1759) German physician, physiologist, anatomist, and psychiatrist Johann Christian Reil was born. He coined the term psychiatry and was the first to describe the locus coeruleus, a nucleus in the brainstem that plays an important role in stress and panic. (1889) Turkish dermatologist and scientist Hulusi Behçet was born. He described Behçet’s disease, as a […]

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