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Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy (1978), by Leon Chesley
By: Sarah Patel
| Published: Apr 27, 2017
Leon Chesley published Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy in 1978 to outline major and common complications that occur during pregnancy and manifest…
LiteratureChesley, Leon C., 1908-2000HypertensionPreeclampsiaDownstate Medical Center (N.Y.)
Simon Edward Fisher (1970-)
By: Kat Fowler
| Published: Apr 27, 2017
Simon Edward Fisher studied the genes that control speech and language in England and the Netherlands in the late twentieth and early twenty-first…
GeneticsWellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics (Oxford, England)Language AcquisitionTranscription factorsForkhead Transcription Factors
Arthur William Galston (1920–2008)
By: Cecilia Chou
| Published: Apr 27, 2017
Arthur W. Galston studied plant hormones in the United States during the late-twentieth century. His dissertation on the flowering process of soybean…
Agent OrangeSoybeanTetrachlorodibenzodioxinHerbicidesDefoliants
Treatment of Anemia during Pregnancy (1931), by Lucy Wills
By: Lauren Lynch
| Published: Apr 20, 2017
In 1931, physician Lucy Wills conducted a study of nutritional deficiencies that caused anemia in pregnant women in Bombay, India, later renamed…
AnemiaPernicious AnemiaFolic AcidAnemia in pregnancyErythrocytes
An Atlas of Fertilization and Karyokinesis of the Ovum (1895), by Edmund Beecher Wilson
By: Kevin M. Gleason
| Published: Apr 20, 2017
Edmund Beecher Wilson in the US published An Atlas of Fertilization and Karyokinesis of the Ovum (hereafter called An Atlas) in 1895. The book…
LiteratureKaryokinesisFertilization (Biology)ConceptionDevelopmental Biology
Adib Jatene (1929–2014)
By: Daniella Caudle
| Published: Apr 20, 2017
Adib Jatene in Brazil was the first surgeon to successfully perform the arterial switch operation in 1975. The operation corrected a heart condition…
Heart--SurgeryTransposition of Great VesselsCongenital Heart DiseaseAorta--AbnormalitiesPulmonary artery--Abnormalities
"Testing the Kin Selection Theory: Who Controls the Investments?" from The Ants (1990), by Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson
By: Kelle Dhein
| Published: Apr 18, 2017
In “Testing the Kin Selection Theory: Who Controls the Investments?” Bert Hölldobler and Edward Osborne Wilson discussed the predictive power of kin…
LiteratureAntsAnimal behaviorReproductionNatural selection
The Meselson-Stahl Experiment (1957–1958), by Matthew Meselson and Franklin Stahl
By: Victoria Hernandez
| Published: Apr 18, 2017
In an experiment later named for them, Matthew Stanley Meselson and Franklin William Stahl in the US demonstrated during the 1950s the semi-…
DNA ReplicationMeselson, MatthewStahl, Franklin W.DNA--SynthesisDNA
Anatomia Uteri Humani Gravidi Tabulis Illustrata (The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus Exhibited in Figures) (1774), by William Hunter
By: Nevada Wagoner
| Published: Apr 13, 2017
William Hunter’s Anatomia Uteri Humani Gravidi Tabulis Illustrata (The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus Exhibited in Figures), hereafter called The…
LiteratureHuman reproductive technologyHuman reproduction in literatureHuman reproduction--Social aspectsHuman reproduction--Congresses
Maurice Ralph Hilleman (1919–2005)
By: Christian H. Ross
| Published: Apr 13, 2017
Maurice Ralph Hilleman developed vaccines at the Merck Institute of Therapeutic Research in West Point, Pennsylvania, during the twentieth century.…
MMR VaccineRubella--VaccinationRubellaCombined VaccinesViral vaccines