Joseph R. Nuttin (1909-1988)

Renate R. A. Burgess (1910–1988)

Dr Renate Burgess, Keeper of Art Collections at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine from 1964 to 1980, died in London on 15 August 1988. Renate Ruth Adelheid Burgess was born in Hanover on 2 August 1910. Her parents came from Silesia. Her father was Dr. phil. Friedrich Bergius (1884-1949), a chemist who won the Nobel Prize (with Carl Bosch) in 1931 for his inventions in the field...

Virginia Apgar (1909-1974)

Virginia Apgar worked as an obstetrical anesthesiologist, administering drugs that reduce women's pain during childbirth, in the mid-twentieth century US. In 1953, Apgar created a scoring system using five easily assessable measurements, including heart rate and breathing rate, to evaluate whether or not infants would benefit from medical attention immediately after birth. Apgar's system showed...

Virginia Apgar (1909-1974)

Virginia Apgar worked as an obstetrical anesthesiologist, administering drugs that reduce women's pain during childbirth, in the mid-twentieth century US. In 1953, Apgar created a scoring system using five easily assessable measurements, including heart rate and breathing rate, to evaluate whether or not infants would benefit from medical attention immediately after birth. Apgar's system showed...

Joseph

as good as his little sister Maria. He does nothing but play marbles. I can't even send him to the store because he never brings home what I tell him to." The general tenor of this dissertation was repeated every time I saw her in the future. I devoted my first lesson to letting Joseph read the story of The Little Red Hen, pp. 1-9, Winston Primer. He read with great difficulty, spelling the wor...

Medical Examination Questions, 1909