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Dr. Heimlich Uses His Maneuver At Retirement Home, Saves 87-Year-Old Woman

In the 1950s, a month after completing training in general and chest surgery, Dr. Heimlich conceived of an operation to replace the esophagus. After successfully performing the procedure, he presented the results at an American Medical Association meeting in 1961. The procedure, dubbed "a hot medical discovery" by Life Magazine, was the first total organ replacement in history. It is used today to overcome birth defects of the esophagus.

Haunted by the image of a Chinese soldier who died on the operating table after being shot in the chest in 1945, Dr. Heimlich set out to develop a valve that would drain blood and air out of the chest cavity.

In 1964, the Heimlich Chest Drain Valve was introduced. Dr. Heimlich is considered a hero in Vietnam and the U.S., where the lives of thousands of American and Vietnamese soldiers shot in the chest were saved for the first time in history by a device barely five inches long. It was manufactured for just one dollar at that time. Today more than 250,000 Heimlich valves are used worldwide each year to treat patients with chest wounds, or following surgery. Each valve saves a life.

Jarlaxle wrote:How has Dr. Heimlich NOT been awarded a Nobel Prize...?

All Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded 106 times to 210 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2015. Click on the links to get more information.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2016

The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has not been awarded yet. It will be announced on Monday 3 October, 11:30 a.m. CET at the earliest.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015
William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura

"for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites"
Youyou Tu

"for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014
John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser

"for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013
James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof

"for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012
Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka

"for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011
Bruce A. Beutler and Jules A. Hoffmann

"for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity"
Ralph M. Steinman

"for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2010
Robert G. Edwards

"for the development of in vitro fertilization"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009
Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak

"for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008
Harald zur Hausen

"for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer"
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier

"for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007
Mario R. Capecchi, Sir Martin J. Evans and Oliver Smithies

"for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2006
Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello

"for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2005
Barry J. Marshall and J. Robin Warren

"for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2004
Richard Axel and Linda B. Buck

"for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2003
Paul C. Lauterbur and Sir Peter Mansfield

"for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002
Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz and John E. Sulston

"for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death'"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001
Leland H. Hartwell, Tim Hunt and Sir Paul M. Nurse

"for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2000
Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard and Eric R. Kandel

"for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1999
Günter Blobel

"for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1998
Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro and Ferid Murad

"for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1997
Stanley B. Prusiner

"for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1996
Peter C. Doherty and Rolf M. Zinkernagel

"for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995
Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Eric F. Wieschaus

"for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1994
Alfred G. Gilman and Martin Rodbell

"for their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1993
Richard J. Roberts and Phillip A. Sharp

"for their discoveries of split genes"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1992
Edmond H. Fischer and Edwin G. Krebs

"for their discoveries concerning reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1991
Erwin Neher and Bert Sakmann

"for their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1990
Joseph E. Murray and E. Donnall Thomas

"for their discoveries concerning organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989
J. Michael Bishop and Harold E. Varmus

"for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1988
Sir James W. Black, Gertrude B. Elion and George H. Hitchings

"for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1987
Susumu Tonegawa

"for his discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1986
Stanley Cohen and Rita Levi-Montalcini

"for their discoveries of growth factors"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1985
Michael S. Brown and Joseph L. Goldstein

"for their discoveries concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1984
Niels K. Jerne, Georges J.F. Köhler and César Milstein

"for theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1983
Barbara McClintock

"for her discovery of mobile genetic elements"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1982
Sune K. Bergström, Bengt I. Samuelsson and John R. Vane

"for their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1981
Roger W. Sperry

"for his discoveries concerning the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres"
David H. Hubel and Torsten N. Wiesel

"for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1980
Baruj Benacerraf, Jean Dausset and George D. Snell

"for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1979
Allan M. Cormack and Godfrey N. Hounsfield

"for the development of computer assisted tomography"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1978
Werner Arber, Daniel Nathans and Hamilton O. Smith

"for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1977
Roger Guillemin and Andrew V. Schally

"for their discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain"
Rosalyn Yalow

"for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1976
Baruch S. Blumberg and D. Carleton Gajdusek

"for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1975
David Baltimore, Renato Dulbecco and Howard Martin Temin

Gilbert N. Lewis
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gilbert N. Lewis
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Born October 28, 1875
Weymouth, Massachusetts
Died March 23, 1946 (aged 70)
Berkeley, California
Nationality American
Fields Physical chemist
Doctoral advisor Theodore William Richards
Doctoral students Michael Kasha
Harold Urey
Glenn T. Seaborg
Joseph Edward Mayer
Known for Covalent bond
Lewis dot structures
Valence bond theory
Electronic theory of acids and bases
Chemical thermodynamics
Heavy water
Named photon
Explained phosphorescence
Influences Irving Langmuir
Merle Randall
Notable awards Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
Willard Gibbs Award (1924)
Davy Medal (1929)

Gilbert Newton Lewis ForMemRS[1] (October 23, 1875 – March 23, 1946)[2] was an American physical chemist known for the discovery of the covalent bond and his concept of electron pairs; his Lewis dot structures and other contributions to valence bond theory have shaped modern theories of chemical bonding. Lewis successfully contributed to thermodynamics, photochemistry, and isotope separation, and is also known for his concept of acids and bases.

G. N. Lewis was born in 1875 in Weymouth, Massachusetts. After receiving his PhD in chemistry from Harvard University and studying abroad in Germany and the Philippines, Lewis moved to California to teach chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. Several years later, he became the Dean of the college of Chemistry at Berkeley, where he spent the rest of his life. As a professor, he incorporated thermodynamic principles into the chemistry curriculum and reformed chemical thermodynamics in a mathematically rigorous manner accessible to ordinary chemists. He began measuring the free energy values related to several chemical processes, both organic and inorganic.

In 1916, he also proposed his theory of bonding and added information about electrons in the periodic table of the elements. In 1933, he started his research on isotope separation. Lewis worked with hydrogen and managed to purify a sample of heavy water. He then came up with his theory of acids and bases, and did work in photochemistry during the last years of his life. In 1926, Lewis coined the term "photon" for the smallest unit of radiant energy. He was a brother in Alpha Chi Sigma, the professional chemistry fraternity.

Though he was nominated 41 times,[3] G. N. Lewis never won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. On March 23, 1946, Lewis was found dead in his Berkeley laboratory where he had been working with hydrogen cyanide; many postulated that the cause of his death was suicide. After Lewis' death, his children followed their father's career in chemistry.

Malariotherapy
See also: Victoria Wells Wulsin § Malariotherapy controversy

From the early 1980s, Heimlich advocated malariotherapy, the deliberate infection of a person with benign malaria in order to treat ailments such as cancer, Lyme disease and (more recently) HIV. As of 2009 the treatments were unsuccessful, and attracted criticism as both scientifically unsound and dangerous.[24] The United States Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have rejected malariotherapy and, along with health professionals and advocates for human rights, consider the practice "atrocious".[25][26] The Heimlich Institute, a subsidiary of Deaconess Associations of Cincinnati, conducted malariotherapy trials in Ethiopia, though the Ethiopian Ministry of Health was unaware of the activity. Reportedly the trials were supervised by Mekbib Wondewassen, an Ethiopian immigrant who works as a car rental agent in the San Francisco area. Heimlich claims that his initial trials with seven subjects produced positive results, but refused to provide details.[24] The experiments had no institutional review board oversight.[20]

Studies in Africa, where both HIV and malaria occur commonly, indicate that malaria/HIV co-infection increases viral load and that malaria could increase the rate of spread of HIV as well as accelerate disease progression.[27] Based on such studies, Paul Farmer described the idea of treating HIV with malaria by stating “it seems improbable. The places where malaria takes its biggest toll are precisely those in which HIV reaps its grim harvest”.[28]

Guinevere wrote:Who needs a Nobel? Dr. Harry Heimlich, Cornell class of 1941, M.D. '43 conducted the Big Red Alumni Band in playing the alma mater in Bailey Hall following the State of the University Address. Heimlich, celebrating his 75th reunion at the age of 96, was the Big Red Band drum major in 1939.

A prize beyond value