October 8 in Medical History
23 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Hôtel-Dieu de MontréalFirst hospital in Montreal, Quebec, the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal, is founded by nurse Jeanne Mance
- Swedish cardiac surgeon Dr. Ake Senning installs the first pacemaker in 43-year old Arne Larsson, in Stockholm
- Little Richard is seriously injured in a single car accident in Los Angeles
- US doctors Joseph E. Murray and E. Donnall Thomas win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for bone marrow transplantation to treat cancer and blood diseases
- Nobel Prize in ChemistryPeter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon win the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes
- The Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology is awarded jointly to Harald zur Hausen for his work on the cause of cervical cancer and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier for the discovery of HIV
- Nobel Prize in MedicineJohn B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work on reprogramming mature cells to become pluripotent
- Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell, and William Moerner win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy
- Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person in the United States to be diagnosed with Ebola, dies.
- American actress and singer Selena Gomez reveals she has Lupus
Born on this day
- John ClarkeEnglish physician (died 1676)
- Eeltsje Hiddes HalbertsmaDutch Frisian writer, poet and physician, born in Grou, Frisia, Batavian Republic (d. 1858)
- Otto Heinrich WarburgGerman physician (Nobel-1931), born in Freiburg, Baden, Germany (d. 1970)
- Ernst KretschmerGerman psychiatrist and author (died 1964)
- Rodney Robert PorterEnglish biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1985)
- Jens Christian SkouDanish scientist (Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1997), born in Lemvig, Denmark (d. 2018)
- César MilsteinArgentine biochemist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1984), born in Bahía Blanca, Argentina (d. 2002)
- Lai Ching-teTaiwanese physician and politician, President of Taiwan (2024-), born in Wanli, Taiwan
- Ursula von der LeyenBelgian-German physician and politician, Defense Minister of Germany, President of the European Commission
Died on this day
- Leonor MichaelisGerman biochemist and physician, known for the Michaelis–Menten equation, dies at 74
- Heinz KohutAustrian-American psychoanalyst who opposed Freud and created the theory of self-psychology, dies of congestive heart failure at 68
- George E. PaladeRomanian-American cell biologist (ribosomen, Nobel 1974), dies at 95
- Eileen CroftonBritish physician and author (born 1919)