October 7 in Medical History
20 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Edith Cavell SentencedEnglish nurse Edith Cavell is sentenced to death along with 34 others by a German court-martial for running an underground network to free Allied soldiers
- Carl Jung's Red BookA digital version of psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung 's 'Red Book' is published 48 years after his death and contains personal notes on his subconscious during the period when he develops his principal theories
- James Rothman, Randy Schekman, and Thomas C. Südhof win the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on transport systems in cells
- Spanish nurse is diagnosed with Ebola, the first case outside West Africa
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Tomas Lindahl (Sweden), Paul Modrich (US), and Aziz Sancar (Turkey) for work on DNA repair in cells
- Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology awarded to Peter Ratcliffe, William Kaelin and Gregg Semenza for discovering how cells sense oxygen
- Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology is awarded to Peter Ratcliffe, William Kaelin, and Gregg Semenza for discovering how cells sense oxygen
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun "for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation"
Born on this day
- Marcus KlingburgIsraeli epidemiologist and soviet spy, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 2015)
- Ivan JirkoCzech composer, music critic and psychiatrist, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (d. 1978)
- R.D. LaingScottish psychiatrist (anti-psychiatry), and writer (The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise), born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1989)
- Lorna Wing (née Tolchard)English psychologist, and researcher who introduced term Asperger's Syndrome, born in Gillingham, England (d. 2014)
Died on this day
- Johann Georg von ZimmermannSwiss philosophical author and physician, dies at 66
- Oliver Wendell HolmesSr., American physician and author (Old Ironsides), dies at 85
- John Hughlings JacksonEnglish neurologist and epilepsy researcher, dies at 76
- Emil KraepelinGerman psychiatrist who developed a classification system for mental illness, dies at 70 (1856-1926)
- Harvey CushingAmerican neurosurgeon (blood pressure studies), dies at 70
- Niels Kaj JerneDanish immunologist (Nobel prize 1984), dies at 82
- Zaw Myint MaungBurmese politician, physician and former political prisoner (born 1951)
- John B. GurdonBritish developmental biologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012), dies at 92 (1933-2025)