Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with August 12.
Events
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Births
1848 – Friedrich Schultze (1848-1934), German neurologist; described Schultze acroparesthesia (Schultze-Nothnagel syndrome), and Schultze test (Chvostek sign)
1882 – Piotr Porfiryevich Sitkovskiy (1882-1933); described Sitkovskiy sign of appendicitis (1922)
1907 – Esther Lillian Bloomberg (1907-1997), American technical chemist; described Albright-Butler-Bloomberg disease (1937)
1917 – Gustav Asboe-Hansen (1917-1989), Danish dermatologist; described Asboe-Hansen sign (1960), and Asboe-Hansen disease (1953)
Deaths
2004 – Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield (1919-2004), English electrical engineer; inventor of computerised tomography (CT) for which he shared the Nobel prize in 1979; Hounsfield unit (HU)
Further reading
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