February 28 in Medical History
12 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Discovery of the DNA Double HelixFrancis Crick and James Watson discover the chemical structure of the DNA molecule (double-helix polymer) using X-ray diffraction studies developed by Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins
- Peter Uberroth suspended 7 baseball players for 1 year, after they admitted in Curtis Strong's trial in September, they used drugs
- The brains of two rats are successfully connected so that they share information
- Oprah Leaves WeightWatchersOprah Winfrey says she is stepping down from the board of WeightWatchers and selling her shares, months after she confirmed taking prescription weight-loss drugs
Born on this day
- Karl Earnest von BaerEstonian-German embryologist (founding father of embryology), born in Jerwen County, Governate of Estonia, Russian Empire (d. 1876)
- Wilfred GrenfellBritish medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador, born in Neston, England (d. 1940)
- Philip Showalter HenchAmerican physician (Nobel Prize 1950 for cortisone), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1965)
- Thomas A.C. RennieScottish-American psychiatrist who led "Mental Health in the Metropolis: The Midtown Manhattan Study", born in Motherwell, Scotland (d. 1956)
- Peter MedawarBritish biologist (1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance"), born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (d. 1987)
Died on this day
- Joseph Clement JuglarFrench physician and statistician (business cycle pioneer), dies at 85
- Clemens von PirquetAustrian physician (Pirquet’s skin test for tuberculosis, coined the word 'allergy'), commits suicide at 54
- Charles NicolleFrench bacteriologist (Nobel Prize in Medicine 1928), dies at 69