History

March 6th American chemist Harry Coover discovered the adhesive properties of certain cyanoacrylates in 1951, leading to development of a...

March 5th He was a Belgian embryologist and cytologist best known for his discoveries concerning fertilization in sex cells and...

March 4th American physician who pioneered smallpox vaccination and fostered an aggressive campaign to inoculate Americans against smallpox. He studied...

March 3rd American biochemist and physician who shared the 1959 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (with Severo Ochoa) for...

March 2nd English medical researcher who introduced the use of Prontosil, the first sulfonamide drug, as a cure for puerperal,...

March 1st (1 March 1914 – 20 June 2003) Was the Victor S. Thomas Professor of the history of science at...

February 28th American physician who was one of the leaders in American rheumatology. He shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology...

February 27th Canadian-born American neurobiologist, who was a corecipient (with Torsten Nils Wiesel and Roger Wolcott Sperry) of the 1981...

February 26th French pharmacist and advocate of optimistic auto suggestion. He was not trained in medicine or psychology, but in...

February 25th English molecular biologist whose study (with Jean Hanson) of muscle ultrastructure using the techniques of X-ray diffraction and...