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1996 Charles Bruce Perry, professor of medicine, dies at 92

1988 Eva Novak, actress (Medicine Man), dies of pneumonia at 90

1979 Allan McLeod Cormack and Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield win Nobel Prize for medicine for developing CAT scan

1972 Corey Hirsch, Medicine Hat, NHL goalie, Vancouver Canucks

1971 Neil Little, Medicine Hat, NHL goalie for the Philadelphia Flyers

1970 Trevor Linden, Medicine Hat, NHL right wing, Canucks, New York Islanders

1962 Dr. Watson (U.S.), Dr. Crick, and Dr. Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA

1954 Cornerstone of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, laid in Bronx

1951 John McTiernan, born in Albany, New York, actor, Predator, Die Hard, Medicine Man

1948 Rob Buckman, British broadcaster/actor, Pink Medicine Show

1947 John Lees, England, rock guitarist and vocalist, Medicine Man

1945 Rik Elswit, rocker, Dr. Hook and Medicine Show-In the Right Place

1942 Jay David, rocker, Dr. Hook and Medicine Show

1938 George Cummings, rocker, Dr. Hook and Medicine Show

1937 117 degrees F (47 degrees C), Medicine Lake, Montana (state record)

1936 1st radioactive isotope medicine administered, Berkeley, California

1932 A J Zuckerman, Dean, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine

1931 Monty Losowsky, prof of medicine, St. James University England

1928 Eric Ash, rector, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine

1925 Henry Harris, British professor of medicine

1924 Willem Einthoven awarded Nobel for medicine

1924 Nobel prize for fysiologie/medicine awarded to W Einthoven

1915 Antony Dornhorst, professor of medicine

1913 Frances Swem Anderson, technologist, nuclear medicine

1911 Phillip Edmund Clinton Manson-Bahr, specialist in tropical medicine

1910 Elizabeth Blackwell, Hastings, 1st woman doctor of medicine

1903 Charles Bruce Perry, professor of medicine

1867 1st U.S. dental school, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, established

1844 Patrick Manson, "Father of tropical medicine"

1793 Johann Lukas Schonlein, helped establish scientific medicine

1772 New Jersey passes bill requiring a license to practice medicine

1768 1st U.S. bachelor of medicine degree, Dr. John Archer

1760 New York passes 1st effective law regulating practice of medicine

1582 Leidse university names Rembert Dodoens prof of botany/medicine



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