1861 –2005 MUNK, William (1816 – 1898)
The roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London; comprising biographical sketches. (Lives of the fellows.) 12 vols.
“Munk’s Roll”. Covers the period 1518-2005 and onward. The entire work is available as a searchable electronic resource from the Royal College of Physicians at this link. "The first volume in this series of obituaries…
GMN 6715 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7824
1880 –1961 U.S. WAR DEPT. SURGEON GENERAL'S OFFICE; BILLINGS, John Shaw (1838 – 1913); U.S. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE
Index-catalogue of the library of the Surgeon General’s Office. Vol. 1-16; 2nd ser., vol. 1-21; 3rd ser., vol. 1-10; 4th ser., vol. l-11(A-Mn); 5th ser., vol. 1-3.
In 1836 Surgeon General Joseph Lovell established a small collection of medical books for the use of his staff. This was the origin of the “Surgeon General’s Library.” John Shaw Billings did much to develop the librar…
GMN 6763 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8233
1923 –2005 KÜKENTHAL, Willy Georg (1861 – 1922)
Handbuch der Zoologie / Handbook of Zoology. Eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreichs / A natural history of the phyla of the animal kingdom. Gegründet von / Founded by Willy Kükenthal. 8 vols., each expanded into many parts.
The Handbuch der Zoologie/Handbook of Zoology was founded by Willi Kükenthal in Berlin, and treated the complete animal kingdom from single cell organisms to mammals in eight thematic volumes: Volume I: Protozoa, Pori…
GMN 9321 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11503
1930 PLARR, Victor Gustave (1863 – 1929)
Plarr’s lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England; Plarr's lives of the Fellows Online.
Publication began with the first 2 vols. edited after Plarr's death by D'Arcy Power with the assistance of W. G. Spencer and G. E. Gask, 1930. Supplement, 1930-51, by Sir D’Arcy Power and W. R. LeFanu, 1953. Second su…
GMN 6730 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7850
1955 ROYAL SOCIETY, [The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge] (1660 – )
Biographical memoirs of fellows of the Royal Society.
http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/by/year/royobits "November 1955 "Obituaries of Royal Society Fellows first appeared in 1830, in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Initially obituaries were read…
GMN 9037 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11216
1963 FALSTEIN, Louis (1909 – 1995); WULMAN, Lejb (Leon) (1887 – 1971); TENENBAUM, Joseph; LAZAROWITZ, Leopold (1895 – 1965); MALOWIST, Simon
The martyrdom of Jewish physicians in Poland: Studies by Dr. Leon Wulman and Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum. Research and Documentation by Dr. Leopold Lazarowitz and Dr. Simon Malowist. Edited by Louis Falstein.
"Of the more than 3 million Jewish Poles that perished during the Holocaust, approximately 3,000 were physicians. It was the goal of the Alliance members to memorialize those physicians who perished during the Holocau…
GMN 8642 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10819
2000 NOBEL FOUNDATION
Nobelprize.org. The official web site of the Nobel Prize.
https://www.nobelprize.org/ Includes documentation, including videos, on every Nobel Prize awarded since 1901. Re the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine see https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/ (Withou…
GMN 8220 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10396
