December 10 in Medical History
33 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Michael IV, Paphlagonicus, Byzantium Emperor dies of results of dropsy. His wife Empress Zoe elevates her adoptive son to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V.
- First Nobel Peace PrizesFirst Nobel Peace Prizes are awarded, first recipients are Red Cross co-founder Henry Dunant and peace activist Frédéric Passy
- Nobel Prize in PhysicsFirst Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Wilhelm Röntgen for his discovery of X-rays
- First Russian to win a NobelIvan Pavlov awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for work on the physiology of digestion, first Russian to win a Nobel Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal "in recognition of their work on the anatomy of the nervous system"
- Worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London sees 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals who have been vivisected
- August Krogh is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the regulation mechanisms of capillaries in skeletal muscle
- Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine jointly awarded to Christiaan Eijkman and Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins for the discovery of vitamins
- Austrian American Karl Landsteiner is presented with the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of human blood groups"
- German chemist Hans Fischer is awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on haemin
- American physiologists Joseph Erlanger and Herbert Gasser presented with Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in Stockholm (awarded 1944), for research into nerve function
- Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine awarded to Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet and Peter Medawar for work on tissue grafting
- Dorothy Hodgkin is the first British woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on penicillin and vitamin B12
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Ragnar Granit, Haldan Keffer Hartline and George Wald "for discoveries about the make-up of the eye
- CDC report on a transfusion recipient who developed AIDS symptoms
- American cytogeneticist Barbara McClintock, aged 81, is the first woman to be solely awarded Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of genetic transposition in maize
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine presented to Gertrude B. Elion , George H. Hitchings and James W. Black "for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment"
- Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology awarded to John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser for their discoveries of nerve cells in the brain that enable a sense of place and navigation
- Sydney, Australia, blanketed in smoke from nearby bush fires pushing air quality to 11 times hazardous levels
- The Ostrava hospital attack in the Czech Republic results in eight deaths, including the perpetrator.
- Roger Daltrey KnightedRock singer Roger Daltrey of 'The Who' is awarded his knighthood by the Prince of Wales at Windsor Castle; he was recognized for services to music and charity, especially for organizing the Teenage Cancer Trust’s annual Royal Albert Hall concerts since 2000, raising more than £32 million
Born on this day
- Joseph ŠkodaBohemian physician, born in Pilsen, Kingdom of Bohemia (d. 1881)
- Louis BolkDutch anatomist and biologist (died 1930)
- Peter RansleyBritish screenwriter (Minor Complications) and co-founder of Action for Victims of Medical Accidents, born in Leeds, England (d. 2026)
- Ross Taylor [Robert Murray Taylor]Scottish transplant surgeon who pioneered kidney transplantations in the U.K, born in Scotland (d. 2003)
- Howard Martin TeminAmerican geneticist (Nobel 1975), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1994)
- Ann GloagScottish nurse and businesswoman
- John BoozmanAmerican politician (Senator-R-Arkansas 2011-), born in Shreveport, Louisiana
Died on this day
- AverroesArab physician and philosopher (b. 1126)
- Jared KirtlandAmerican physician, naturalist and reformed penitentiaries, dies at 84
- Juliane GabrielsBelgian physician and art historian who was one of the first female doctors in Belgium (Artus Quellin the Elder, Flemish Sculpture), dies at 72
- Wolf V. VishniacGerman-American microbiologist and academic (born 1922)
- Ruth Evelyn Mansfield (née Webster)British physician and anaesthetist, dies at 92