October 28 in Medical History
19 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Paul Hermann Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
- Ecological disaster in Donora, Pennsylvania.
- Research indicating the plague dates back to the Bronze Age in skeletons 5,783 years old is published by a University of Copenhagen team in "Cell"
- World Heath Organization ranks tuberculosis alongside HIV as the world's deadliest infectious diseases, killing 1.2 million in 2014
- Global COVID-19 cases increased by a record 500,000 for the first time, rising 25% in less than two weeks, according to Reuters
- Four-Week Lockdown in FranceFrench President Emmanuel Macron announces France will enter a new four-week lockdown on October 30 in a televised address
- Swedish engineers in Linköping produce the world's first anatomically correct female crash dummy, as previous female dummies were just scaled-down versions of the male figure
Born on this day
- Robert ListonScottish surgeon (died 1847)
- Sister NiveditaIrish-Indian nurse, author, and educator (died 1911)
- Richard DollEnglish epidemiologist (pioneer in research linking smoking to health problems), born in Hampton, Middlesex, England (d. 2005)
- Richard Laurence Millington SyngeBritish biochemist (Nobel 1952), born in Liverpool, England (d. 1994)
- Jonas SalkAmerican medical researcher and virologist who created the Polio vaccine, born in New York City (1914-1995)
- Karalyn PattersonEnglish psychologist and academic
- Steven ChamuleauDutch cardiologist
Died on this day
- John LockeEnglish empiricist philosopher ; influential Enlightenment thinker and "Father of Liberalism" (Two Treatises of Government), dies at 72 (1632-1704)
- Paul MöhringGerman physician and scientist, died at 82
- Ernst GräfenbergGerman-American physician and gynecologist (born 1881)
- Thomas Graham BrownScottish mountaineer and physiologist (born 1882)
- Gordon BilneyAustralian dentist and politician (born 1939)