November 29 – On This Day in Medical History

What happened on November 29? Explore notable medical events, breakthroughs, births and deaths from across history in LITFL’s On This Day (OTD)

Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with November 29.

Events


Births

1803 — Christian Andreas (Johann) Doppler (1803–1853), Austrian physicist and mathematician; described the Doppler effect (1842)

1869 — Alfred Stieda (1869-1945), German surgeon; described the Pellegrini-Stieda lesion and Stieda fracture (1908)


Deaths

1909Robert Marcus Gunn (1850-1909) was a Scottish Ophthalmologist; described Marcus Gunn pupillary phenomenon (1902)


Further reading

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