American Decades
Awards
NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS IN MEDICINE
OR PHYSIOLOGY
1930
Karl Landsteiner (Austrian-born American) for the identification of human blood into the major groups A, B, AB, and O.
1931
Otto Warburg (Germany) for his discovery of the nature and mode of action of the respiratory enzyme.
1932
Edgar D. Adrian and Charles S. Sherrington (United Kingdom) for their discovery regarding the functions of the neurons.
1933
Thomas Hunt Morgan (United States) for his discovery of the heredity transmission functions of chromosomes.
1934
George R. Minot, William P. Murphy, and George H. Whipple (United States) for their work on liver extract therapy to overcome anemia.
1935
Hans Spemann (Germany), embryologist, for discovering the organizer effect in embryonic growth.
1936
Henry H. Dale (United Kingdom) and...
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1930's Medicine and Health
- Overview
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Topics in the News
- Birth Control
- The Blues Blue Cross And Blue Shield
- The Cost Of Being Sick
- The Dawn Of The Sulfa Drugs
- The Food, Drug, And Cosmetic Act Of 1938
- The "Good Sleep"—A Ne W Era In Surgery
- "The Great White Plague"—Tuberculosis Before The Age Of Antibiotics
- Health And The New Deal
- The March Of Dimes And The National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
- Maternal Mortality—Why Mothers Died
- The Nation'S Health
- The New Deal, Health Insurance, And The Ama
- Psychoanalysis In America And The Impact Of The European Intellectual Migration
- Sex, Disease, And The New Deal
- Specialization Versus General Practice
- Headline Makers
- People in the News
- Awards
- Deaths
- Publications
- Important Events in Medicine and Health, 1930–1939
