May 15th Born 15 May 1848; died 15 Jun 1905 at age 57. A German neurologist who has assigned a neurological disorder to...

May 14th Born 14 May 1918; died 19 Feb 2003 at age 84. James Daniel Hardy was an American surgeon who headed teams...

May 13th Born 13 May 1893; died 23 Jun 1988 at age 95. Henry Alexander Murray was an American psychologist who developed a theory...

May 12th Born 12 May 1910; died 29 Jul 1994 at age 84. Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin (née Crowfoot) was an English biochemist...

May 11th Born 11 May 1946. Robert Koffler Jarvik is an American surgeon and inventor who invented the Jarvik-7, the first...

May 10th Born 10 May 1898; died 11 Sep 1941 at age 43. German-American biochemist whose technique of “tagging” molecules with radioactive isotopes made...

May 9th In 1960, the US Food and Drug Administration approved the pill as safe for contraception. In 1953, the...

May 8th Born 8 May 1902; died 30 Sep 1994 at age 92. French biologist who contributed to the understanding of lysogeny, in which a bacterial virus,...

May 7th Born 7 May 1907; died 19 Dec 1999 at age 92. Alton A (nthony) Lindsey, an American biologist, was a pioneer ecologist and conservationist...

May 6th Born 6 May 1907; died 12 Jan 1967 at age 59. U.S. psychologist who attempted to construct a comprehensive theory of behaviour...