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July 2
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Health & Safety
- 2001 - Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky, performed the first implant of the AbioCor, a self-contained artificial heart, in a human patient, a 59-year-old named Robert Tools.[1]
Births
- 1862 - William Henry Bragg - Bragg won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in determining crystalline structures using x-rays. This discovery was crucial to the work of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, who solved the structures of cholesterol, vitamin B12, penicillin, and insulin.[2],[3]
References
- ↑ "AbioCor Implantable." Heart Assist Devices. Texas Heart Institute. Accessed on July 2, 2008.
- ↑ "William Bragg Biography." (1915) Nobel.org. The Nobel Foundation. Accessed on July 2, 2008.
- ↑ "Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin - Biography." (1964) The Nobel Foundation. Accessed on July 2, 2008.
