Physicians, Healers & Medical Researchers Chronology

Harry Stack Sullivan, American psychiatrist and teacher

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John Allen, dentist and inventor of porcelain false teeth with a platinum base, dies.

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Mar 19

Siegfried T Bok neurobiologist/anatomist (Cybernetica), is born.

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Mar 29

William Bowman English anatomist, dies at 75.

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Dec 30

Dr Miles V Lynk, physician, publishes first Black medical journal.

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1893

Jan 16

Henry C Rümke Dutch psychiatrist (Periods in Man's Life), is born.

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Jul 08

Fritz Perls father of Gestalt therapy, is born.

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Jul 22

Karl Menninger, founder of the Menniger Foundation which studies mental health problems, is born.

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Jul 23

Karl Menninger psychiatrist (Menninger Clinic), is born.

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1894

Wilhelm HC Tenhaeff Dutch parapsychologist, is born.

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Jun 23

Alfred Kinsey, pioneer sex researcher, is born.

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Dec 08

Willem JF Nuyens Dutch physician/Roman Catholic historian, dies at 71.

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1895

Apr 23

Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig physiologist, dies.

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Sep 28

Louis Pasteur chemist, scientist: developed pasteurization process, rabies vaccination; dies at age 72.

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Dec 03

Anna Freud, the Austrian/English psychoanalytist/daughter of Sigmund Freud who pioneered the field of child psychoanalysis, is born.

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1896

Aug 09

Jean Piaget, psychologist who did pioneering work on the development of children's intellectual faculties, is born.

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1897

Mar 24

Wilhelm Reich Austrian-US psycho analysist (character analysis), is born.

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Aug 09

Ralph Wyckoff American pioneer in x-ray crystallography, is born.

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Oct 06

Florence Seibert physician, scientist: developed process that removed all bacteria from water in a single distillation; perfected test used worldwide for tuberculosis; is born.

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1898

May 24

Helen Brooke Taussig, American physician; founded pediatric cardiology, dies at 87.

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Aug 09

Gardner Quincy Colton, American anesthetist/inventor, dies at age 84.

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Dec 07

William Jenner, physician, discovered separate identities of typhus, typhoid fever, dies.

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1899

Feb 27

Charles H Best Maine, physiologist/co-discoverer of diabetes treatment (Insulin), is born.

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Frederick Denison Maurice Hocking pathologist, is born.

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Dec 11

Vera von der Heydt psychoanalyst, is born.

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Dec 30

James Paget English surgeon (disease of Paget), dies at 85.

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1900

Mar 23

Erich Fromm, psychoanalyst: The Method and Function of an Analytic Social Psychology, Psychoanalytic Characterology and Its Relevance for Social Psychology; is born in Frankfurt, Germany.

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Sep 25

Jesse Lazear, American physician and researcher of yellow fever, dies.

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Oct 25

E. R. Squibb, American pharmaceutical manufacturer, dies at age 81.

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1901

Arie Querido Dutch social psychiatrist, is born.

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Apr 18

László Németh Hungarian physician/author (Gyász/Galilei), is born.

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May 07

L T Coggeshall medical scientist/ US Secretary of HEW (1956-58), is born.

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Aug 24

Clara Maass, army nurse who sacrificied her life at 25 to prove that the mosquito carries yellow fever, dies.

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Aug 25

Clara Maass army nurse sacrificied her life at 25 to prove that the mosquito carries yellow fever.

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Nov 08

Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke, American Civil War nurse, dies at age 84.

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1902

Jan 08

Carl R[ansom] Rogers US, psychologist (Client-Centered Therapy), is born.

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May 03

David R Capriles, Curaçaos director of psychiatry, dies at 64.

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May 08

Andre Michel Lwoff physiologist, is born.

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Jun 15

Erik H Erickson, psychologist (Existentionalist), is born.

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Sep 05

Rudolf Virchow, German scientist: founded cellular pathology; dies at age 80.

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Nov 22

Walter Reed, American pathologist and bacteriologist, dies at age 51.

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Nov 23

Walter Reed US Army Surgeon, proved mosquitoes transmit yellow fever, dies.

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Dec 22

Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist, dies at 62.

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1903

Jan 27

John Eccles British physiologist/neurologist, is born.

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May 02

Benjamin Spock New Haven CT, pediatrician/author (Common Sense Book of Baby Care), is born.

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May 24

Arthur Vineberg, Canadian heart surgeon, is born.

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Aug 28

Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian psychologist, educator of autistic and emotionally disturbed children, is born.

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Nov 27

John Eccles British physiologist/neurologist, is born.

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Dec 12

Enid Balint-Edmonds psychoanalyst, is born.

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Dec 25

Albert Sch„ffle German sociologist, dies at 72.

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1904

Jan 19

James Winston Watts developer (Frontal Lobotomy), is born.

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Mar 20

B(urrhus) F(rederic) Skinner Susquehanna PA, Behaviorism pioneer (Skinner box), is born.

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Jun 03

Dr Charles Drew Washington DC, pioneer of blood plasma preservation/first director of the Red Cross blood bank, is born.

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Jul 01

Mary Steichen Calderone, American physician and writer, is born.

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Dec 15

William Hitzig Austria, Maxwell physician, is born.

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1905

Joseph C Juglar French physician/economist, dies at 85.

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Mar 26

Viktor Emil Frankl pyschiatrist (Man's Search for Meaning), is born.

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Apr 06

W. Warrick Cardozo, physician, researcher of Sickle Cell Anemia, is born.

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Apr 07

W. Warrick Cardozo, physician, researcher of Sickle Cell Anemia, is born.

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1906

Aug 26

Albert Sabin, polio researcher and inventor of the Sabin oral polio vaccine, is born.

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1907

Jan 13

Sabine Zlatin nurse, is born.

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Jan 14

Sophie Redmond Suriname's first female physician, is born.

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Mar 23

Daniele Bovet, Swiss-born Italian pharmacologist, is born.

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Apr 05

J Zeldenrust Dutch pathologist/anatomist, is born.

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Dec 21

Oskar Lassar German dermatologist (public baths), dies at 58.

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1908

Sep 07

Dr Michael E DeBakey artificial heart pioneer, is born.

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1909

Helen O Dickens [Henderson], US physician/gynaecologist, is born.

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Mar 03

Jay Morris Arena inventor/pediatrician, is born.

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Apr 21

Rollo May US, psychologist (Love & Will), is born.

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Jun 07

Virginia Apgar physician: the Apgar Score System: method of evaluation of newborns’ need for medical care; is born.

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1910

Feb 22

Muriel Monkhouse Red Cross worker, is born.

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Mar 16

Eduard FW Pflüger German physiologist, dies at 80.

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Apr 22

Eric Scowen physician, is born.

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Margot Turner matron-in-chief (Army Nursing Service), is born.

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May 29

Agnes Beatrice Read medical social worker, is born.

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May 31

Francis Avery Jones British gastro-enterologist, is born.

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May 31

Elizabeth Blackwell Hastings, first woman doctor of medicine, is born.

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Aug 10

Angus Campbell US, psychologist (Elections & Political Order), is born.

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Aug 13

British nurse Florence Nightingale, famous for her care of British soldiers during the Crimean War, dies in London.

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Aug 26

William James, the American psychologist and exponent of pragmatism, dies.

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Sep 12

Alexander D. Langmuir, epidemiologist, created and led the U.S. Epidemic Intelligence Service, is born.

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Oct 03

Lucy Hobbs Taylor, first US woman dentist (1866), dies.

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Oct 15

Torbjorn Oskar Caspersson, Swedish cytologist and geneticist, is born.

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1911

Denis Parsons Burkitt, English surgeon and medical researcher, is born.

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Elsie Agnes Giorgi physician/humanitarian, is born.

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Apr 03

Michael Woodruff FRS, surgeon, is born.

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May 05

Phillip Edmund Clinton Manson-Bahr specialist in tropical medicine, is born.

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Oct 18

Alfred Binet, French psychologist; developed measures of intelligence, dies at age 54.

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Dec 23

Niels Jerne immunologist, is born.

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1912

Feb 10

Joseph Lister, British surgeon, pioneer of antiseptic, inventor: Listerine mouthwash; President of the Royal Society [1895 to 1900]; dies.

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Apr 12

The founder of the American Red Cross, Clara Barton dies at her home in Glen Echo, Maryland, at age 90.

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Oct 28

Richard Doll, English epidemiologist who established a link between tobacco smoke and cancer, is born.

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1913

Mar 11

Thomas Gray professor/anaesthetist, is born.

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May 06

Jack [John T] Aitken British anatomist, is born.

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May 28

Gordon Wolstenholme physician, is born.

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May 29

Douglas Black physician, is born.

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Jun 09

Patrick Steptoe, British physician, developer of invitro fertilization with Jeanette MacDonald, is born.

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Jun 11

Patrick Steptoe, English physician and medical researcher, is born.

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Jun 26

Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, English medical researcher, dies at age 84.

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Aug 22

Arthur M. Sackler, American physician, publisher and art collector, is born.

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Nov 25

Lewis Thomas, physician and author (The Lives of a Cell), is born.

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1914

Jan 04

Silas Weir Mitchell US physician/author (Free Quaker), dies at 84.

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Feb 05

Sir Alan Hodgin, English physiologist and biophysicist, is born.

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Feb 16

J Tobin British anaesthetist, is born.

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Apr 19

Andrew Wilkinson pediatrician, is born.

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Lord Smith British surgeon, is born.

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May 15

Jack Pepys immunologist, is born.

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Oct 28

Dr Jonas Salk, NYC, medical researcher, made polio a fear of the past, is born.

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1915

Jan 07

Herman Musaph Dutch psychiatrist/sexologist/founder (NVSH), is born.

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Feb 26

Pran Nath Chhuttani physician/teacher, is born.

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Apr 15

Ernest Borneman sexual researcher psychotherapist writer/musicologist, is born.

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Sep 19

Elizabeth Stern, Canadian pathologist who first published a case report linking a specific virus to a specific cancer, is born.

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Dec 19

Dr. Alois Alzheimer, first to describe the disease named after him, dies at 51.

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Dec 27

William H. Masters physician: Masters of Masters and Johnson: Human Sexual Response, On Sex and Human Loving; is born.

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1916

Jan 16

Arnold Aletrino Dutch physician-criminologist (From Death), dies at 57.

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Feb 03

Vivien Signy nurse, is born.

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Mar 04

Hans Eysenck psychologist, is born.

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Apr 17

David Stafford-Clark psychiatrist, is born.

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May 16

Irene Elizabeth Beatrice Ighodaro doctor/social reformer, is born.

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Oct 14

C Everett Koop surgeon general (1981-89), is born.

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Nov 20

Robert A Bruce MD, pioneer (exercise cardiology), is born.

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1917

Aug 06

Andrew Taylor Still, American founder of osteopathy, dies at age 89.

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1918

Jan 21

Geoffrey Dawes physiologist, is born.

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T Berry Brazelton doctor (On Being a Father), is born.

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Nov 05

George Sheehan, cardiologist well known for his book Running and Being, is born.

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1919

Feb 15

Pieter K Pel Dutch internist (Pel-Ebstein fever), dies at 66.

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Feb 24

Alan Hugh Iliffe psychologist, is born.

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Apr 01

Joseph E. Murray, transplant physician, is born.

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May 21

Victor A D Ségalen [Max Anély] French ship's doctor/writer, dies.

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Jul 10

Abraham Jacobi, German-born physician and pioneer in the field of pediatric medicine, dies at age 89.

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Dec 02

Michael Geoffrey Corcos medical researcher, is born.

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Dec 29

Sir William Osler, physician, author: Principles and Practice of Medicine; dies.

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1920

Jan 29

Alec Coppen psychiatrist, is born.

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Feb 03

Dr Henry Heimlich doctor/inventor (Heimlich maneuver), is born.

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Feb 14

Arnold Elton consultant surgeon, is born.

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Feb 17

Colin Franklin doctor, is born.

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Jul 03

William Crawford Gorgas US, Surgeon-Gen, help cure yellow fever, dies at age 65.

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Aug 22

Dr Denton Cooley heart surgeon (1st artifical heart transplant), is born.

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Oct 22

Timothy Leary, American psychologist who experimented with psychedelic drugs, is born.

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1921

May 18

Anthony Epstein FRS/pathologist, is born.

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1922

Mar 22

Louis A Ranvier French anatomist/historian, dies at 86.

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Apr 02

Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist, dies at age 37.

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Apr 09

Sir Patrick Manson, Scottish physician"Father of tropical medicine", dies at age 77.

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May 19

Heinrich I Quincke German internist (postural drainage), dies at 79.

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Jun 01

Birth of Ray Knighton, who in 1954 founded the Medical Assistance Program (MAP International) in Chicago.

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Nov 08

Christiaan Barnard surgeon, medical pioneer: performed first known heart transplant [1967]; author: Good Life, Good Death: A Doctor’s Case for Euthanasia and Suicide; is born.

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1923

Jan 22

Max Nordau [Südfeld], German physician/zionists leader, dies at 73.

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Feb 09

Norman E Shumway Michigan, pioneer cardiac transplant surgeon, is born.

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May 24

Paul Bramley oral surgeon, is born.

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1924

Feb 29

Otto Hutter physiologist, is born.

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Mar 31

Leo Buscaglia, Los Angeles CA, "Dr Hug", psychologist (Love), is born.

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Apr 24

Stanley Granville Hall, American psychologist, dies at age 80.

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Aug 27

William Maddock Bayliss, British physiologist, co-discoverer of hormones, dies.

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1925

Jan 26

Sir James Mackenzie, Scottish cardiologist; pioneer in the study of cardiac arrhythmia, dies at age 72.

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Dr Virginia E Johnson sexologist (of Masters & Johnson) is born.

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Feb 22

Thomas C Allbutt English physiologist, dies at 88.

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Mar 17

Jerome Lejeune physiologist, is born.

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Jun 20

Josef Breuer, Austrian physician/physiologist, dies at age 83.

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1926

Jan 20

Robert L Van Citters cardiology/advisory panelist/UW dean, is born.

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Apr 07

Johannes Rood Dutch immunologist (Eurotransplant), is born.

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Duncan Watson president (World Blind Union), is born.

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Jul 09

Mathilde Krim, geneticist, founder of the AIDS foundation, is born.

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Dec 27

Lee Salk child psychologist, writer: Preparing for parenthood : understanding your feelings about pregnancy, childbirth, and your baby; is born.

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1927

Jan 17

Thomas Dooley, American physician/author, is born.

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Mar 29

John Vane FRS/pharmacologist, is born.

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Jul 28

Baruch Blumberg, physician, medical researcher, is born.

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Oct 07

R.D. (Ronald David) Laing psychiatrist, author; is born.

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1928

Feb 20

Donald Longmore British cardiac surgeon, is born.

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Jack Kevorkian is born.

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Jun 04

Dr. Ruth Westheimer (Karola Ruth Siegel) sex therapist; author; TV celebrity, is born.

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Sep 20

Dr Joyce Brothers NYC, pop psychiatrist ($64,000 question winner), is born.

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1929

Baron Clemens von Pirquet, Austrian physician; devised a skin test for tuberculosis, dies at age 54.

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1931

Apr 15

Tomas G Tranströmer Swedish psychologist/poet (Mörkerseende), is born.

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Apr 17

Joan Clague director of nursing services (Marie Curie Foundation), is born.

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Aug 04

Daniel Hale Williams, the first physician to perform open heart surgery and founder of Provident Hospital in Chicago, Ill, dies at age 73.

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Aug 23

H.O. Smith, molecular biologist credited with helping 'open the door' on genetic engineering, is born.

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1932

May 09

David Plastow CEO (Medical Research Council), is born.

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May 11

Henriette Santer clinical Psychologist, is born.

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Jun 07

William Keen, American, first American brain surgeon, dies at age 95.

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Aug 18

Luc Montagnier, virologist who discovered the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), is born.

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1934

Patrick Holmes Sellors ophthalmologist, is born.

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Mar 22

Leslie Turnberg President (Royal College of Physicians), is born.

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Apr 25

David de Peyer cancer research campaigner, is born.

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Apr 30

Dr William Welch, American pathologist; modernized medical practices in the United States, founded John Hopkins, dies at age 84.

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Jun 03

Dr Frederick Banting co-discoverer of insulin, is knighted.

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1935

Apr 08

Elizabeth Barrett-Connor epidemiologist (Living legacy award-1984), is born.

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Apr 12

Wendy Savage obstetrician/gynaecologist, is born.

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Apr 24

Louis Keith Chicago IL, physician (expert on multiple-births), is born.

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1936

Apr 18

Madeleine Gillian Jinkinson medical administrator, is born.

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Trevor Clay General-Secretary (Royal College of Nursing), is born.

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1937

Pamela McEvoy-Johnston psychotherapist-board member (WIC), is born.

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May 28

Alfred Adler, Austrian physician/psychologist, dies at age 67.

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1938

Mar 27

Louis William Stern German/US philosopher/psychologist, dies at 66.

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John Jacob Abel, American pharmacologist and physiological chemist, dies at age 81.

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Nov 28

William McDougall, English-born American psychologist, dies at age 67.

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1939

Charles H Mayo US surgeon/co-founder (Mayo Clinic), dies at 74.

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Jul 15

Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist; pioneered study of schizophrenics, dies at age 82.

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Sep 23

Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis, dies at age 83.

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Oct 07

Harvey Cushing, American surgeon; pioneered important neurosurgery techniques, dies at age 70.

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1940

Jan 07

William Elgin Swinton child psychiatrist, is born.

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Jan 12

Erich R Jaensch German psychologist (eidetiek), dies at 56.

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Feb 20

RA Weiss director (Institute of Cancer Research), is born.

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Mar 10

Wayne Dyer psychologist (Universe Within You), is born.

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Sep 01

Lillian D Wald, US, sociologist/organizer (Visiting Nurses), founded Henry St. Settlement in NY, dies at age 73.

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1941

Apr 26

Jean Demoor Belgian physician/physiologist/educationalist, dies at 74.

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1942

Jun 08

Andrew Weil, physician and author (Spontaneous Healing), is born.

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Nov 02

Shere Hite (Shirley Gregory) author: The Hite Report, Women and Love, Sexual Honesty: By Women for Women, A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality, is born in St Joseph MO.

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1943

Mar 02

Alexandre Yersin Swiss bacteriologist (bacteria plague), dies at 79.

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Oct 12

Max Wertheimer, Czech-born American psychologist; founder of Gestalt psychology, dies at age 63.

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Dec 19

William De Vries Brooklyn NY, surgeon-inventor (Symbion artifical heart), is born.

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1944

Jan 21

Gustaaf DFL Schamelhout Flemish physician/writer, dies at 74.

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Mar 21

Carl Koller, Czech-born American eye surgeon, dies at age 86.

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Aug 23

Antonia Novello US Surgeon General, is born.

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1945

Oct 11

Robert Gale medical doctor: cofounder of International Bone Marrow Registry, is born.

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1946

Timothy Chambers pediatrician, is born.

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Feb 16

J R Farndon British consultant surgeon, is born.

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May 11

Robert Jarvik physician, is born. Jarvik is the inventor of the Jarvik 7 artificial heart [implanted into Barney Clark in 1982: kept Clark alive 112 days].

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1947

Jan 09

Karl Mannheim sociologist (Diagnosis of Our Time), dies at 53.

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1948

Dec 04

Karl Bonhoeffer German psychiatrist/neurologist, dies.

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1949

Jan 14

Harry Stack Sullivan, American psychiatrist and teacher, dies at age 56.

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Jan 26

Paul Nurse doctor/director-General elect (Imperial Cancer Research Fund), is born.

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Mar 04

James Rowland Angell, American psychologist and president of Yale University, dies at age 79.

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May 11

Adrianus de Kleyn throat/nose/otologist (ear doctor), dies at 65.

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1950

Feb 09

Andrew N Meltzoff developmental psychologist, is born.

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Feb 22

J. Marc Holser, dentist, innovator and minor philosopher of the early twenty-first century is born, in humble, yet respectable surrondings.

Mar 31

Alison McCartney pathologist/Breast Cancer campaigner, is born.

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Apr 01

Charles R Drew surgeon/developer of blood bank concept, dies at 45.

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Nov 07

Alexa Canady, first female African-American neurosurgeon, is born.

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1951

Sep 18

Dr. Benjamin Solomon Carson, Sr., African-American neurosurgeon, is born.

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Sep 24

Phillippus Paracelsus physician/alchemist, dies at 48.

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1952

Feb 12

Dr Salvador Pineda Mexico City, doctor, is born.

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Nov 03

David Ho, virologist, AIDS researcher.

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Dec 04

Karen Horney, German/US neo freudian psychoanalyst who exposed the male bias in the Freudian analysis of women, dies at age 67.

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1954

Mar 07

James Bryan Herrick, American cardiologist; studied sickle-cell anemia, dies at age 92.

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1956

Apr 04

Fritz Künkel German physician/charachterologist, dies at 66.

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Aug 25

Dr. Alfred Kinsey sexual behavior researcher: The Kinsey Report, The Sexual Behavior in the Human Male; dies.

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Dec 21

Lewis M Terman psychologist (Genetic studies of genius), dies at 79.

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1957

Sep 28

Albert Ascoli Italian developed anti-tuberculosis vaccine, dies.

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Nov 03

Wilhelm Reich, Austrian psychologist, dies at age 60.

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1958

Jan 22

Ernest Jones, British psychoanalyst, dies at age 79.

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Ernest Jones British psychoanalyst (Life & Work of Sigmund Freud), dies at age 79.

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Jul 01

Dr Harry Nicholls Holmes crystallized vitamin A, dies at 78.

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Jul 13

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Sep 25

John Broadus Watson behaviorist psychologist, dies.

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Dec 10

Juliane Gabriels Flemish physician, dies at 72.

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1960

Apr 14

Archibald McIndoe plastic surgeon, dies.

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Sep 20

Ernest Goodpasture, American pathologist, dies at age 73.

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Sep 22

Melanie Klein, Austrian-born English psychoanalyst, dies at age 78.

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1961

Thomas Dooley, American physician/author, dies at age 34.

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Feb 07

Louis-Ferdinand Céline French physician/author/anti-Semite, dies at 67.

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Jun 06

Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, one of the founders of modern psychiatry, dies at age 85.

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1962

May 12

Thomas Milton Rivers, American virologist; helped develop the polio vaccine, dies at age 73.

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May 13

Dr H Trendley Dean, introduced fluoridation into water, dies.

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1964

Feb 04

Siegfried T Bok neurobiologist/anatomist (Cybernetica), dies at 71.

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Mar 07

Franz Alexander Hungarian/US psychoanalyst, dies at 73.

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1966

Feb 05

Ludwig Binswanger Swiss psychiatrist (Über Ideenflucht), dies at 84.

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1967

May 22

Henry C Rümke psychiatrist (Light of Man), dies at 74.

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Aug 22

Gregory Pincus, the American scientist whose discoveries led to the development of the first birth-control pills, dies.

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Dec 28

Béla Schick Hung/US children's physician (Scarlet Fever), dies at 90.

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1969

Jul 15

Thomas Francis, Jr., American microbiologist and epidemiologist, dies at age 69.

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1970

Sep 22

Alice Hamilton, American pathologist who worked on industrial diseases, dies at age 101.

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1972

Apr 19

Adolf Bach German philologist/sociologist, dies at 82.

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1974

Aug 07

Virginia Apgar physician: the Apgar Score System: method of evaluation of newborns’ need for medical care; dies.

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1975

Mar 03

László Németh Hungarian physician/author (Galilei/Iszony), dies at 73.

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1980

Mar 18

Erich Fromm, German/US psychoanalyst, dies at age 79.

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Sep 17

Jean Piaget, the Swiss psychologist famous for his studies of cognitive development in children, dies.

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1982

Oct 09

Anna Freud, the Austrian-born psychologist who pioneered the field of child psychoanalysis, dies.

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1983

Apr 10

Ulf S von Euler-Chelpin Swedish physiologist, dies at 78.

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1984

Jan 14

Mary Zeldenrust-Noordanus Dutch sexuologist (Dutch Society for Sexual Reformation-NVSH), dies at 55.

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1986

May 20

Helen Brooke Taussig, American physician; founded pediatric cardiology, dies at age 87.

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1987

Jan 04

F van Heek Dutch sociologist, dies at 79.

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Feb 04

Carl R. Rogers, American psychologist, dies at age 85 of AIDS.

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Arthur M. Sackler, American physician, publisher and art collector, dies at age 73.

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1988

Mar 21

Patrick Steptoe, British physician, developer of invitro fertilization with Jeanette MacDonald, dies at age 74.

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1989

May 31

Dr Charles A Hufnagel artificial heart valve pioneer, dies at 72.

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Aug 23

R.D. (Ronald David) Laing psychiatrist, author; dies.

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1990

Mar 13

Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian psychologist, educator of autistic and emotionally disturbed children, commits suicide at age 86.

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Aug 18

B.F. (Burrhus Frederic) Skinner psychologist: behaviorism: developed the Skinner Box, an experimental, enclosed environment for laboratory animals; dies at age 86.

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1991

May 03

Gerrit Mik child psychiatrist/Dutch MP (D66), dies.

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1992

Feb 02

Jack [John T] Aitken British anatomist, dies at 78.

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Kate A ter Horst-Arriëns Dutch nurse (Battle of Arnhem), dies at 85.

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May 02

Lee Salk child psychologist, writer: Preparing for parenthood : understanding your feelings about pregnancy, childbirth, and your baby; dies of cardiac arrest at 65.

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Dec 12

Bernard Lievegoed Dutch doctor/psychiatrist/author (Free College), dies at 87.

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Dec 18

Mother Clare Hale cared for NYC AIDS babies (Hale House), dies at 87.

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1993

M Eleonore Lippits first Dutch female missionary doctor, dies at 85.

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Mar 03

Albert Sabin, the Polish-American doctor who developed the polio vaccine, dies at age 86.

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Mar 23

Denis Parsons Burkitt, English surgeon and medical researcher, dies at age 82.

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Dec 04

Hetty de Boer-Jongkind Dutch medical astrologist, dies at 42.

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1994

William Elgin Swinton child Psychiatrist, dies at 54.

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Apr 03

Jerome Lejeune French geneticist (Syndrome of Down), dies at 67.

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Apr 27

Jerome Lejeune physiologist, dies at 69.

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May 12

Erik H. Erikson, psychologist (Childhood and Society), dies.

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May 12

David Brooks psychologist, dies at 91.

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Dec 10

Ruth Evelyn Mansfield doctor, dies at 92.

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1995

Jan 03

Gerard W Taylor South African/British surgeon, dies at 74.

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May 05

Esther Waterhouse doctor/methodist, dies at 86.

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May 19

World's youngest doctor, Balamurali Ambati, 17, graduates Mount Sinai.

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Jun 23

Dr. Jonas Salk, developer of the first vaccine to halt the crippling rampage of polio, died in La Jolla, CA, at age 80.

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1996

Feb 01

Clive Burton neuropathologist, dies at 54.

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Feb 25

Haing S Ngor doctor/actor (Killing Fields), dies at 45.

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Feb 26

Daniel John Chapman Cunningham physiologist, dies at 76.

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