June 16 in Medical History
13 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- US Supreme Court rules that live, human-made micro-organisms created in labs could be patentable, in Diamond v. Chakrabarty
- Bhutan becomes the first country to institute a total ban on tobacco.
- Scientific teams in the UK and Israel claim to have grown synthetic human embryos equivalent to that of 14-day-old natural embryos sparking controversy
Born on this day
- Joseph Solomon DelmedigoItalian physician, mathematician, and music theorist, born in Candia, Crete (d. 1655)
- Edward DavyEnglish-Australian physician, chemist, and inventor (electric relay), born in Ottery St Mary, England (d. 1885)
- Barbara McClintockAmerican cytogeneticist (1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovery of genetic transposition), born in Hartford, Connecticut (d. 1992)
- Enoch PowellBritish Conservative MP and shadow cabinet member infamous for his "Rivers of Blood" speech, born in Birmingham, England (1912-1998)
- Philip SunshineAmerican physician who helped revolutionize neonatal care for premature babies, born in Denver, Colorado (d. 2025)
- Shigeko SasamoriJapanese peace activist, nurse aide and Hiroshima survivor, born in Hiroshima, Japan (d. 2024)
Died on this day
- Hadrianus Junius [Adriaen de Jonghe]Dutch physician, historian and humanist, dies at 63
- John SnowEnglish physician who studied cholera and is considered the 'Father of modern epidemiology', dies of a stroke at 45 (1813-1858)
- Crawford Williamson LongAmerican surgeon and pioneer (use of ether as an anesthetic in surgery), dies at 62
- Marcel JunodSwiss physician and International Committee of the Red Cross delegate (1935-59), dies at 57