October 9 in Medical History
25 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- Christian feast day: — Wilfred Grenfell (Episcopal Church in the United States)
Events
- Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey, in the 2001 anthrax attacks
- Gatwick, Heathrow and JFK airports enhance screening for the Ebola virus
- Nobel Prize in ChemistryNobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to David Baker for building new kinds of proteins and to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for developing an AI model to predict proteins' complex structures
Born on this day
- Nicolaes TulpDutch anatomist and politician (died 1674)
- Ján Andrej SegnerSlovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician, born in Bratislava, Slovakia (d. 1777)
- Johann Andreas SegnerGerman mathematician, physicist, and physician (died 1777)
- Charles Rudolph WalgreenAmerican pharmacist and businessman, founded Walgreens (died 1939)
- Helene Deutsch [Rosenbach]Polish-American psychoanalyst, born in Przemyśl, Poland (d. 1982)
- Joseph ZubinLithuanian-American psychologist and academic (died 1990)
- Robert FinchAmerican politician (8th U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare), born in Tempe, Arizona (d. 1995)
- Peter MansfieldBritish Physician whose discoveries led to MRI (2003 Nobel Prize), born in London (d. 2017)
- Jonathan LearAmerican philosopher and psychoanalyst (Radical Hope, Love and Its Place in Nature), born in New York City (d. 2025)
Died on this day
- Gabriel Fallopius [Fallopio]Italian anatomist and early advocate for the use of condoms (Observationes anatomicae), dies at 39
- Gabriele FalloppioItalian anatomist and physician (born 1523)
- Claude PerraultFrench physician and architect (East Façade of the Louvre; Paris Observatory), dies at 75
- Ritchie [Richard] BlackmoreEnglish physician to William III and writer of epic poetry, dies at 75
- Richard BlackmoreEnglish physician and poet (born 1654)
- Wilfred GrenfellBritish medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador, dies at 75
- Che GuevaraArgentine Marxist revolutionary (Cuban Revolution), author and physician, executed in Bolivia at 39 (1928-1967)
- Anna FreudAustrian-English psychoanalyst and daughter of Sigmund Freud, dies at 86
- Herbert Meinhard MühlpfordtGerman historian and physician (born 1893)
- William P. MurphyAmerican physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1892)
- Thomas A. SteitzAmerican Biochemist (2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for ribosome discoveries), dies at 78 (1940-2018)
- Lee Wei LingSingaporean neurologist (born 1955)