October 4 in Medical History
13 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- PM Spencer PercevalSpencer Perceval becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after William Cavendish-Bentinck , Duke of Portland retires due to ill health
- The Mannerheim League for Child Welfare, a Finnish non-governmental organization, is founded on the initiative of Sophie Mannerheim.
- Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson for their work on cryo-electron microscopy
- Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine awarded to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for discovering receptors for temperature and touch
Born on this day
- Francisco VallésSpanish physician (died 1592)
- Bernardino RamazziniItalian physician (founder of occupational medicine), born in Carpi, Duchy of Modena and Reggio (now Italy) (d. 1714)
- Alan L. HartAmerican physician and author (died 1962)
- Fred A. KummerowGerman-American biochemist and advocate against the use of trans-fatty acids in food, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 2017)
- John E. MackAmerican psychiatrist and author (died 2004)
- Paco LeónSpanish actor, director and AIDS activist, know for "Aída,", born in Seville, Spain
Died on this day
- Henrietta Lacks [Loretta Pleasant]African-American tobacco farmer whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, extensively used in medical research since the 1950s (1st immortalised cell line), dies of cervical cancer at 31
- Michael SmithEnglish-Canadian biochemist (Nobel 1993- Site-directed mutagenesis), dies at 68
- Clark MiddletonAmerican disability advocate and actor (The Blacklist; Twin Peaks: The Return), dies from West Nile virus at 63