November 2:
(1) (1716) German naturalist and physician Engelbert Kaempfer passes away. He wrote Amoenitatum Exoticarum, a book about his travels that also was the...
August 15:
(1) (1896) Czech-American biochemist Gerty Theresa Cori is born. She focused her research on sugar metabolism and shared the 1947 Nobel Prize in...
June 22:
(1) (1924) English clinician and medical historian Christopher Booth was born. He is known for inventing the telephoto lens and for his work...
June 13:
(1) (1773) English polymath and physician Thomas Young was born. Described as “The Last Man Who Knew Everything”, Young contributed to the fields...
May 18:
(1) (1901) American biologist Vincent du Vigneaud was born. He is known for the isolation, structural identification, and total synthesis of the neuropeptide...
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