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On this day in 2008: Thomas H Weller died, won 1954 #NobelPrize for providing means to grow polio virus in tissue-culture #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1997: John C Kendrew died, won 1962 #NobelPrize for elucidating structure of myoglobin #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1982: Stanford Moore died, won 1972 #NobelPrize for his work on the catalytic activity of ribonuclease #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1940: Thomas A Steitz born, won 2009 #NobelPrize for elucidating structure and function of ribosomes #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1967: Gregory Pincus died, co-developer of 1st contraceptive pill #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1920: Denton Cooley born, performed 1st artificial heart transplant #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1907: Cyril A Clarke born, medical geneticist pioneered prevention of rhesus disease in newborns #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1963: Gladys Dick died, helped determine the cause of scarlet fever & develop a treatment & vaccine against the disease #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1922: Akutsu Tetsuzo born, built & implanted 1st artificial heart that kept an animal alive #ThisDayinBiotech
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On this day in 1915: Carlos J Finlay died, Cuban epidemiologist, 1st to identify mosquito that transmits yellow fever #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1915: Paul Ehrlich died, won 1908 #NobelPrize, coined the term 'antibody' & popularised magic bullet concept #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1913: Roger W Sperry born, won 1981 #NobelPrize for showing the specilisation of the two parts of the brain #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1948: Linus Pauling died. Won 1954 #NobelPrize. Identified 1st genetic disease: Sickle-cell anaemia #SickleCellAnaemia #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1931: Aristides Agramonte died, Cuban physician who discovered mosquito transmits yellow fever, #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1994: Richard L M Synge died, won 1952 #NobelPrize for inventing liquid-liquid partition chromatography #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1980: Elizabeth Stern died, transformed diagnosis & cervical cancer treatment #ThisDayInBiotech #WomenInBiotech
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On this day in 1973: Selman A Waksman died, won 1952 #NobelPrize for his discovery of streptomycin #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1904: Wendell M Stanley born, won 1946 #NobelPrize for the purification and crystallization of viruses #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 2004: Sune K Bergstrom died, won 1982 #NobelPrize for isolating and elucidating the chemical structure of prostaglandins #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1982: Axel H T Theorell died, won 1955 #NobelPrize for discoveries relating to the action of oxidation on enzymes #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1896: Gerty Cori born, won 1947 #NobelPrize for discovering how body metabolises glycogen #ThisDayInBiotech #WomenInBiotech
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On this day in 1883: Ernest E Just born, African-American pioneer on marine mammal cell fertilisation #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1929: Edwin R Lankester died, 1st to work out how malaria parasite develops in mosquito and human blood #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1919: Reinhold Benesch born, helped demonstrate how haemoglobin transports oxygen during respiration #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1917: Eduard Buchner died, won 1907 #NobelPrize for discovering cell-free fermentation #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1912: Salvador E Luria born, won 1969 #NobelPrize for helping discover replication and genetic mechanism of viruses #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1865: Ignaz Semmelweis died, early pioneer of antisepsis to prevent childbed fever #ThisDayinBiotech
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On this day in 1895: Johann F Miescher died, 1st person to discover and isolate nucleic acids and hypothesise they played a role in genetic inheritance #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1951: Anthony Clark died, created 1st transgenic animal to produce human proteins in milk #ThisDayinBiotech
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On this day in 2004; Godfrey N Hounsfield died, won 1979 #NobelPrize for inventing X-ray communter assisted tomography #ThisDayInBiotech