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Today In Medical History – August 18

August 18:

(1) (1914) American psychiatrist Lucy Ozarin is born. She was one of the first women psychiatrists for the US Navy, focusing on schizophrenia patients.

(2) (1925) Canadian cardiac surgeon Pierre Grondin is born. He was one of the first surgeons to successfully perform a heart transplant.

(3) (1932) French virologist Luc Montagnier is born. He shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS.

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