1923 | Medicine
Medicine
Pasteur Institute bacteriologist Gaston Ramon, 37, develops a tetanus toxoid that will lead to wide-scale immunization against the infection.
X-ray (Roentgen-ray) inventor Wilhelm K. Roentgen dies at Munich February 10 at age 77.
U.S. Veterans Bureau director Charles R. Forbes resigns February 15, and Congress launches an investigation into allegations that he has diverted alcohol and drugs from veterans hospitals to bootleggers. His handpicked general counsel Charles F. Cramer commits suicide March 16, and Forbes will be convicted of fraud in one of several Harding administration scandals.
Scottish-born Canadian physiologist John (James Rickard) McLeod, 47, shares the Nobel award with Frederick G. Banting; he interpreted last year's Banting-Best insulin discovery.