December 31st Born 31 Dec 1816; died 29 Jan 1890 at age 73. A British doctor (1st Baronet) who played a leading role…

December 30th An Italian-American who shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine  (with Stanley Cohen) for the discovery…

December 29th Born 29 Dec 1863; died 10 Nov 1934 at age 70. A Swiss cardiologist who  fully described the group of modified…

December 28th Born 28 Dec 1944. Kary Banks Mullis is an American biochemist who invented the polymerase chain reaction (PCR)…

December 27th Born 27 Dec 1910; died 19 Jun 1987 at age 76. A British doctor who first succeeded in using reflective ultrasound…

December 26th An Irish cardiologist who developed a life-saving portable defibrillator. He found  that 60% of men (up to middle…

December 25th Born 25 Dec 1901; died 2 Oct 1966 at age 64. American veterinary pathologists and virologists first isolated the influenza virus,…

December 24th Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev was a Russian neurophysiologist and psychiatrist who studied the anatomy and physiology of the nervous…

December 23rd Niels Kaj Jerne was a Danish immunologist who shared (with César Milstein and Georges Köhler) the 1984 Nobel…

December 22nd American physiologist who shared (with George Wald and Ragnar Granit) the 1967 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine…