On this day in 1920: E Donnall Thomas born, won 1993 #NobelPrize for pioneering bone marrow transplants #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1854: Emil A. von Behring born, won 1901 #NobelPrize for serum treatments against diptheria & tetanus #ThisDayInBiotech
On this day in 1813: John Snow born, pioneer in public health, epidemiology and anaesthesia #ThisDayInBiotech
On this day in 1854: Paul Ehrlich born, won 1908 #NobelPrize, coined the term 'antibody' & popularised magic bullet concept #ThisDayInBiotech
On this day in 1991: Ragnar Granit died, won 1967 #NobelPrize for showing electrical changes in eye when exposed to light #ThisDayInBiotech
On this day in 1943: William H Bragg died, won 1915 #Nobe Prize for co-development of x-ray crystallography #ThisDayBiotech
On this day in 1955: Alexander Fleming died, winner of 1945 #NobelPrize for discovering penicillin #ThisDayInBiotech #Antibiotics
On this day in 1976: Proto-oncogenes suggested to be part of genetic machinery of normal cells #ThisDayInBiotech
On this day in 1925: Margaret Dayhoff born, founder of bioinformatics http://whatisbiotechnology.org/index.php/people/summary/Dayhoff #ThisDayBiotech
On this day in 2013: Frank Ruddle died, created 1st transgenic mouse, laid pathway for Human Genome Project http://whatisbiotechnology.org/index.php/people
On this day in 1966: Frits Zernike died, won 1958 #Nobel Prize for inventing the phase-contrast microscope #ThisDayInBiotech
On this day in 1981: Max Delbruck died, won 1969 #NobelPrize for discovering replication mechanism & genetic structure of viruses #ThisDayInBiotech
On this day in 1983: Ulf von Euler died, won 1970 #NobelPrize for research on nerve actions #ThisDayInBiotech
On this day in 1974: Earl W Sutherland died, won 1971 #NobelPrize for revealing the actions of hormones at the cellular level #ThisDayInBiotech
On this day in 1921: Birthday Evelyn Witkin, spearheaded DNA mutagenesis research #ThisDayBiotech #WomenBiotech
On this day in 1896: Edward C Kendall born, won 1950 #NobelPrize for work on adenal gland hormones #ThisDayInBiotech
On this day in 1985: Publication of DNA fingerprinting principle by Alec Jeffreys #ThisDayInBiotech
On this day in 1954: James B Herrick died, discovered the blood disease sickle-cell anemia #SickleCellAnaemia #ThisDayInBiotech
On this day in 1938: David Baltimore born, spearheaded tumour virus research & guidelines for genetic engineering #NoblePrize #ThisDayBi
On this day in 1846: Edouard van Beneden born, established that every cell member of a given species have the same number of chromosomes #ThisDayInBiotech
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