November 22 in Medical History
17 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Isolation of a single gene is announced by scientists at Harvard University
- Spirit Cave Mummy, North America's oldest at 10,600 years old, is returned to the Fallon Paiute Shoshone tribe for reburial after DNA sequencing proved he is an ancestor of contemporary tribes
- Vanellope Wilkins, born with her heart outside her body, is the first UK baby to survive birth and surgery to reposition her heart
- G20 virtual two-day summit ends with pledge to ensure affordable access to vaccines for all
Born on this day
- Johannes Crato von KrafftheimGerman humanist and physician (died 1585)
- Benedict Augustin MorelAustrian-French psychologist (dementia praecox), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1873)
- Nathan KimballAmerican physician, politician, postmaster, and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Fredericksburg, Indiana (d. 1898)
- Andrew HuxleyEnglish physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2012)
- Norman AldridgeEnglish toxicologist (solved global poisoning mysteries), born in Nuneaton, England (d. 1996)
- Richard Carmona17th Surgeon General of the United States (2002-06), born in New York City
Died on this day
- Johann Christian ReilGerman physician, physiologist, and anatomist (born 1759)
- Walter ReedAmerican physician and entomologist (born 1851)
- Wilhelm BeiglböckNazi physician (b. 1905)
- Hans KrebsGerman-British doctor and research biochemist specializing in metabolic reactions (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1953), dies at 81
- Frank FennerAustralian microbiologist (b. 1914)
- Otto HutterAustrian-born British physiologist (born 1924)
- Jean Knight [Caliste]American soul, funk, and R&B singer ("Mr. Big Stuff"), and nurse, dies at 80