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Week 1

1. Robert C. Burdette, an entomologist who devised a method to control the pepper maggot, died in January, 1935.

2. Oliver P. Jenkins, also died early in January, 1935. He was Professor Emeritus of physiology from Stanford University and an authority on fish of Hawaii.

3. Gould's Medical Dictionary; the words and phrases generally used in medicine and the allied sciences, with their pronunciation and derivation, 4th rev ed, by Gould, Scott, and Brownlow, was published by Blakiston's in 1935.

4. H. S. Jennings' Genetics was published by W. W. Norton in 1935.

5. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, was published by Wiley VCH, Germany in 1935.

6. Minzoku Eisei, was published by Nippon Minzoku Eisei Gakkai, Japan in 1935.

7. Occasional Papers. Life Sciences, was published by the Royal Ontario Museum, Canada in 1935.

Week 2

8. The establishment of Fort Jefferson National Monument was enacted by the U.S. Congress. The name was changed to Dry Tortugas National Park in 1992. Happy birthday to them!

9. Frederick Augustus Dixey was an evolutionary entomologist at Oxford, curator of the Hope collections at Oxford, and President of the Entomological Society of London. He applied natural selection to entomology, especially butterflies. He died in mid-January, 1935.

10. Edith Grey Wheelwright authored Physick garden; medicinal plants and their history, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1935.

11. Hans Zinsser of Harvard wrote Rats, Lice and History: being a study in biography, which, after twelve preliminary chapters indispensable for the preparation of the lay reader, deals with the life history of typhus fever, published by Little, Brown, and Co in 1935.

12. Johannes Prior, co-discoverer of the Finkler-Prior choler vibrio, died early in 1935.

13. The first issue of Museo del la Plata. Notas. Zoologia by the Universidad Nacional de la Plata, Argentina, was in 1935.

14. The first issue of Museo del la Plata. Notas. Botanica by the Universidad Nacional de la Plata, Argentina, was in 1935.

Week 3

15. We missed an earlier in January birthday for Gene Elden Likens, born January 6, 1935. If you know him, wish him a belated happy birthday from us! He is a well-recognized and honored aquatic ecologist/limnologist and was recipient of multiple honorary degrees from the USA and Europe and winner of multiple honors and awards, including the First G. E. Hutchinson Award from the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography in 1982, a NY Academy of Science Award in 1986, the International ECI Prize for Limnetic Ecology in 1988, the Tyler Prize for environmental research in 1993, the Naumann-Thienemann Medal from the Societe Internationale Limnologiae of Brazil in 1995 and the Lifetime Achievement Award for AIBS in 2000.

16. Laurence Charles Binford celebrated his birthday on January 11. He is a retired ornithologist and was very active in both the Western Field Ornithologists and the Cooper Ornithological Society.

17. Howard Bodley Haines celebrated his birthday on January 15. He is emeritus zoology faculty from the University of Oklahoma with interest in the physiology of vertebrates in arid environments.

18. Japanese zoologist, Chiyomatsu Ishikawa celebrated his birthday on January 17. His research focuses on the natural history of Japan, including embryology; evolution; the study of fish, crustacea, and reptiles, mostly published in Japanese, but some translated into German, Chinese, and English.

19. Margaret Simpson, a USA citizen born in Hong Kong, celebrates her birthday on January 19. She is an invertebrate zoologist and specialist on the biology of polychaetes.

20. Zoo (Anvers), a journal published by the Societe Royale de Zoologie d'Anvers, Belgium, started in 1935.

21. The Canadian Dental Association Journal also began in 1935.

Week 4

22. Bruce Joseph Roser, Director of the Company of Biologists, Ltd, was born January 21, 1935.

23. Edmund A Richards, recipient of the R.A. Gregory Award for Medical Research in 1973, the International Pharmacology Award in 1975, and the William S Merrill Award in 1977, with experience in the US and Europe, primarily on gastroenterological research relating to pancreatic and gastric secretions and the transfer of pharmacolologically active drugs across the placenta was born January 25, 1935.

24. Walter Lincoln Burrage, co-editor of the Dictionary of American Medical Biography and secretary for 25 years of the Massachusetts Medical Society, died on January 26, 1935.

25. Michael Grabham, author of Madeira: Its Climate and Resources and prominent naturalist for the area, with a wide knowledge of the fish and crustacea of the Madeira waters, as well as the island flora and fauna, died January 28, 1935.

26. Born January 28, 1935, in the Czech Republic, Canadian citizen Karel Josef Rakusan was emeritus professor of physiology from the University of Ottawa and recipient of the Czech Academy of Science Award in 1966. His primary research was in developmental physiology and oxygen in the heart.

27. Howard Johnson Shannon's Book of the seashore: the life experiences of a naturalist on the beach, 1st ed, was published by Doubleday, Doran & Co., in 1935.

28. The journal American Surgeon, published by the Southeastern Surgical Congress, USA, was first published in 1935.

29. The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa published the first issue of Nursing Update in 1935.

Week 5

30.Albert Mann, botanist and authority on sea grasses and diatoms, died February 1, 1935. The Albert Mann Diatom Collection is at the Smithsonian Institution.

31.Louis Howard Miller was born February 4, 1935. He received the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize in 1985, and the Sixth Annual Bristol-Myers Squibb Award in Infectious Disease in 1996.

32.Victor Gladstone Vethamany, Canadian biologist, was born Febuary 7, 1935. He was a recipient of the National Science Prize in 1954 and the Bourne Prize in 1957 from the University of Madras.

33.David White died February 7, 1935. He was active in the Geological Survey (US) with interest in fossil plants of the Mesozoic and was possibly the foremost Paleozoic paleobotanist in the USA at the time. He also served as VP of the National Academy of Sciences and president of the Geological Society of America.

34. Leonhard Jores, emeritus director of the Kiel Pathological Institute, and author of The Commoner Diseases, their causes and effects, died February 7, 1935.

35.. Hokkaido University, Japan, began publishing the Scientific Papers of the Institute of Algological Research in 1935.

36. Laboratorios Hormona, SA, Mexico, began publishing Endocrinologia y Terapeutica in 1935.

Week 6

37. Although Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton received his knighthood in 1935, this was only the most public of his honors. He was Hope professor of zoology at Oxford for thirty years and served as president of three organizations: the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1937, the Linnean Society of London from 1912 to 1916, and twice for the Entomological Society of London from 1903-04 and 1925-26, which named him honorary life president in 1933 when it became the Royal Entomological Society. His primary research area was with mimicry.

38. Jean Cyrus Rostand published an important work on dragonflies in 1935, La Vie des Libellules; however he went on to do more extensive work on amphibians. He received the Henry de Parville Prize in 1934 from the Academy of Sciences and the Binoux Prize in 1941.

39. Barbara McClintock was awarded an unshared Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1983 for her work on transposition of genes based on her work with zea maize. One of the most important "classical" papers on maize was by McClintock with Marcus M. Rhoades in Botanical Review 1:292, 1935, "The Cytogenetics of Maize."

40. Hildebrand Wolfe Harvey was a significant marine scientist at the Plymouth Laboratory of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom for over 25 years. One of the most foundational articles on plankton was "Plankton Production and Its Control," with Leslie Hugh Norman Cooper, Marie Lebour, and Frederick Stratten Russell in the Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 20:407, 1935. He received the Alexander Agassiz Medal from the U.S. National Academy of Science in 1952 and was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1958.

41. Chancey Juday was the first president of the American Society of Limnology, the predecessor of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography. Although the ASL completed its official incorporation in 1936, Juday is noted as serving as president beginning in 1935.

42. Jules Bordet served as President of the Conseil Scientifique at the Institut Pasteur in Paris in 1935.

43. Izdatel'stvo Meditsina, Russian Federation, published the first issue of Arkhiv Patologii in 1935.

Week 7

44. Sir George Seaton Buchanan was awarded the Jenner Medal from the Royal Society of Medicine in January 1935 for distinguished work in epidemiology.

45. J.B.S. Haldane gave the Sedgwick Memorial Lecture in January 1935 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He spoke on "Some Problems of Mathematical Biology."

46. Edna Harde Young, then at the Pasteur Institute, was awarded the Guy Amerongen Prize for Cancer Research from La Ligue Francaise contre de Cancer in February 1935 in recognition of her paper that proposed that chemically preserved foods can aid in cancer growth.

47. Lucy S. Morgan from the Tennessee State Health Dept. was awarded the Mary Pemberton Nourse Memorial Fellowship from AAUW (American Association of University Women) on February 17, 1935, to study the science of public health at Yale University.

48. Perlina Winocur from the University of Buenos Aires Medical School received an AAUW Latin American Fellowship on February 17, 1935, to go to the Johns Hopkins Hospital to continue her study on infant mortality.

49. Lucy Boyd spoke on "Women in Science in Scotland" at the Sigma Delta Epsilon graduate women's scientific fraternity meeting in conjunction with the AAAS meeting in February 1935.

50. Henry A. Pilsbry, curator of mollusca, received the George W. Carpenter Prize of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia for the best piece of original scientific research. This funded publications of a later study of the land molluscs of North America.

Week 8

51. Edward James Salisbury received the Veitch Memorial Award from the Royal Horticultural Society for "outstanding contributions to the advancement and improvement of the science and practice of horticulture."

52. E. D. Merrill and A. B. Stout, both of the New York Botanical Garden were elected honorary fellows of the British Royal Horticultural Society and honorary life members of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.

53. Samuel James Gilfillan, prominent psychiatrist and worker with mental illnesses for forty years, died on February 28, 1935. He had been awarded the decoration Chevalier de l'Ordre de Leopold by the King of the Belgians and the Order of the British Empire.

54. Sir William Leslie Mackenzie, member of the Scottish Board of Health, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, died on February 28, 1935.

55. Walter Jones, professor emeritus of physiological chemistry at Johns Hopkins and author of numerous articles on nucleic acids in yeast, died on February 28, 1935.

56. The Turkish Medical Society began publishing the journal Turk tip Cemiyeti Mecmuasi, now Turk Tip Dernegi Dergisi, in 1935.

57. John S. Haldane was a major researcher in respiratory physiology. The new edition of his Respiration with John G. Priestley published in 1935 by Yale University Press was the standard for the subject for many years. He also developed an interest in philosophy as evidenced by his Philosophy of a Biologist, published by Clarendon Press in 1935.

Week 9

58. Carlyle F. Jacobsen and John Fulton published an article on frontal lobe ablation in chimpanzees that changed their behavior as reported in Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry v.33. Antonio Egas Moniz tried on a human with the same result, which was the introduction of lobotomy for treatment of mental illness.

59. Legislation in NY state was the first to allow blood type evidence in court cases in March 1935.

60. Anne C Cohen was born March 1, 1935. A researcher at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, California Academy of Sciences, and the Bodega Marine Laboratory of the University of California at Davis, she received an award for Exceptional Services from the Smithsonian Institution in 1979 and the Antarctic Service Medal from the National Science Foundation in 1967.

61. Gerald S. Moss, born March 4, 1935, served as President of the Association for Academic Surgery in 1976 and was inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

62. Conrad Barnett Link, born March 5, 1935, received the L. M. Ware Award for Distinguished Teaching from the American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) in 1983 and the Leonard H. Vaughan Memorial Research Award in Floriculture in 1954, was inducted as a Fellow of the ASHS, and retired as emeritus professor of horticulture from the University of Maryland.

63. Kenneth Wilson Steward was also born March 5, 1935. He was an aquatic ecologist and served as President of the North American Benthological Society 1978-79 and received their Award of Excellence in 1997.

64. George Leslie Brengelmann, born March 7, 1935, retired as Professor Emeritus from the University of Washington. He studied body temperature regulation.

65. The first issue of La Clinique Ophtalmologique was published by Laboratoires Martinet in France in 1935. The title ceased in 1991.

Week 10

66. E. M. Fannin, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland, died March 8, 1935.

67. Martha Tracy, dean of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania celebrated 25 years at the College and a portrait of her was presented to the College in honor of their 85th anniversary on March 9, 1935.

68. Roland Harrison Ingram, Jr., born March 10, 1935, was a pulmonary physician. He received the Edward Livingston Trudeau medal from the American Lung Association in 1996.

69. Donald E. Henson, born March 12, 1935, was Program Director at the National Cancer Institute for over 20 years.

70. George Newton Eaves, born March 12, 1935, won Director's Awards from NIH in 1976 and 1986. He studied exocellular enzymes of bacteria.

71. Sven Otto Hörstadius did major work on echinoderms, especially regarding reproduction, with the most significant being his "Über die Determination im Verlaufe der Eiachse bei Seeigeln," published in Pubblicazioni della Stazione zoologica di Napoli 14:251 in 1935. He was later able to use the technique of vital staining to help map the cranial neural crest cells in amphibians and higher animals which was later published as a book, The Neural Crest by Oxford University Press in 1950. He also was active in professional organizations and served as Chairman of the International Union of Biological Sciences and as President of the International Council of Scientific Unions.

72. The Tree-Ring Society published the first issue of Tree-Ring Research in 1935.

Week 11

73. Eberhard Karbe, born March 15, 1935, was a German veterinarian, who received the Otto Bayer Award from the Bayer Foundation for the Recognition and Support of Scientific Research in 1993.

74. Philip Leon Gildenberg, born March 15, 1935, and last of Baylor College of Medicine, was President of the World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery in 1993.

75. Richard Joseph Albertini, born March 15, 1935, won the Alexander Hollaender Award from the Environmental Mutagen Society in 1990 and the St. George Medal for volunteer service from the American Cancer Society also in 1990; he is Professor Emeritus of the University of Vermont.

76. The Maxim Gorky Scientific Research Institute of Medical Genetics was founded March 15, 1935. It grew out of the former Medico-Biological Institute of the Commissariat of Public Health (Nakomzdrav).

77. John Hernage Prescott was born March 16, 1935. He was an aquarium executive and worked at the Marineland of the Pacific, the New England Aquarium, among other places. He received a commendation for efforts to conserve whales from the U.S. House of Representatives in 1971 and the Annual Science Award for Conservation from the American Cetacean Society in 1969.

78. John James Rickard Macleod died March 16, 1935. He wrote Physiology and Biochemistry in modern medicine, 7th ed (title varies), published by Mosby in 1935, the year of his death; he also published a series of 12 articles in American Journal of Physiology entitled "Studies in Experimental Glycosuria" as part of some 37 papers on problems related to the metabolism of carbohydrates. He shared the Nobel Prize in physiology with Sir Frederick Banting in 1923 for work on insulin.

79. Lester Breslow, born March 17, 1935, is Emeritus from the School of Public Health at the University of California - Los Angeles. He received the the Sedgwick Memorial Medal from the American Public Health Association in 1977, the Porter Prize in 1998, and the Stephen Smith Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Public Health from the New York Academy of Medicine in 2005, among others. He served as President of the Public Health Cancer Association of America in 1953, the International Epidemiological Association 1964-68, the American Public Health Association in 1969, and the Association of Schools of Public Health in 1973-75.

80. Rosemary Anne Stevens, born March 18, 1935, received the Arthur Viseltear Prize from the American Public Health Association in 1990 and the Welch Medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine in the same year. She wrote on the history of medicine and on health policy and medical education.