Biography of Junet Mohamed
Junet Sheikh Nuh Mohamed is one of Kenya’s most recognizable contemporary politicians, known for his vocal presence in…
Dentist William Morton: Painless Surgery and the Ruin of His Life
Stepping into an operating theater was a terrifying experience before the mid-nineteenth century. There was no silent, sterile…
René Laennec: The Modest French Doctor Who Rolled Up Paper and Invented the Stethoscope
Picture yourself stepping into a modern hospital room. Among the sea of digital displays, electronic monitors, and automated…
Biochemist James Collip: The Quiet Hero Who Purified Raw Insulin for Human Use
There are two names that almost always come to mind when people reflect on the landmark discovery of…
Nobel’s Bitterest Feud: The Struggle for Insulin’s Discovery and Its Department Head, John Macleod
A medical triumph of the twentieth century, insulin’s discovery in 1922 is universally celebrated. For children and adults…
Co-discoverer Charles Best: The Undergraduate who Fought Decades for Recognition
History will remember the discovery of insulin as one of the most remarkable milestones in modern medicine. Millions…
An eBook titled Frederick Banting: The Fiery Surgeon Who Discovered Insulin and Sold It for a Dollar
Before the early 1920s, being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes was essentially the beginning of the end. The…
An Autobiography of Gerhard Domagk: The Scientist Who Unleashed the First Synthetic Antibiotic
A single bacterial infection from a minor scrape, a splinter, or a pinprick could quickly lead to death…
Chemist Paul Ehrlich: The Chemist Who Invented Modern Chemotherapy
During the turn of the twentieth century, medicine entered a brilliant new era of microbiology. It was possible…
Emil von Behring: The First Nobel Laureate in Medicine for Diphtheria Antitoxins Who Sidelined His Japanese Peer
During the last decade of the nineteenth century, diphtheria was known as the “strangling angel of children.” The…