1936 Robert Matheson Douglas was born in South Australia. 1959 He graduated in medicine at the University of Adelaide. 1967 he took up a position as Specialist Physician and Deputy Medical Superintendent of the Port Moresby hospital in Papua New Guinea. In PNG he developed an interest in respiratory infections particularly the ..
1879 – Born in the western Lithuanian village of Kalvarija. 1903 – He received his medical degree in neurology and other specialties. 1912 – he married Miriam Albin, who bore him two children, a son, Joel, and a daughter, Sara. – During the First World War, Elkes ..
1925 – John Harland Bryant, Jack was born in Arizona, USA, and educated at numerous schools all over the country. 1949 – Earned a B.A at the University of Arizona. 1953 – Received his MD at the College of Physicians & Surgeons at Columbia University. 1960 – Joined the medical faculty of the University ..
1984 – Received MBBS degree from Dow Medical College, Karachi. 1990 – Received MSC from the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston. 1997 – Was awarded PhD from the Australian National University, Canberra. 2008 – retired as Fellow at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at The Australian National University. ..
A French Physician 1774 – Born on April 24 in Provence. 1786 – He was appointed Chirurgien aide-major at Val de Grâce in Paris. 1789 – Physician at the Institute for Deaf Mutes. 1816 – 1832 – Co-editor of the Journal Universel des Sciences Médicales, Paris (1822), (1821) Published a major ..
1914 – An American oncologist who played a prominent role in the introduction of chemotherapy for cancer was born this year. 1932 – He studied at Georgetown Preparatory School. 1940 – He went to college in Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, served in the U.S. army medical corps during World War II, where ..
1773 – He was born on the 13th day of June this year in Milverton, Somersetshire, England, and educated at the universities of Edinburgh, Goettingen, and Cambridge. 1796 – He obtained a medical degree at Goettingen. 1799 – He began to practice medicine in London. 1802 – He became foreign secretary ..
1868 – An American physicist was born this year in Concord, Massachusetts. 1901 – He was professor of experimental physics at Johns Hopkins University. He is probably best known for his work discrediting the phenomenon of N rays. 1905 – He published the book “Physical Optics”. 1907 – He also published his book “How to ..
1858 – Born on January 18th in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. American physician and founder of Provident Hospital in Chicago, credited with the first successful heart surgery. 1883 – Williams graduated from Chicago Medical College. 1884-1893 – He served as surgeon for the South Side Dispensary and physician for the Protestant Orphan Asylum. – In ..
1802 – He was born this year in the Oregon Country. He is famous for leading the first large party of wagon trains along the Oregon Trail. 1834 – He applied to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. 1835 – He traveled with missionary Samuel Parker to present-day north-western Montana and ..