Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with January 9.

Events

1966 – Death of Albert Stevens (1887–1966), also known as patient CAL-1, was an American house painter from Ohio. Stevens was subjected to an involuntary human radiation experiment and survived the highest known accumulated radiation dose in any human (6400 rem). Dr. Joseph Gilbert Hamilton injected Stevens with 131 kBq (3.55 µCi) of plutonium as part of the Manhattan Project in May 1945

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Births

1823 – Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch (1823-1908), German Surgeon; inventor of the Esmarch bandage

1886 – Katharine Krom Merritt (1886-1986), American pediatrician; described Kasabach–Merritt syndrome (1940)

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Deaths

1934 – Hakaru Hashimoto 橋本 策 (1881-1934), Japanese physician; described Hashimoto Thyroiditis (1912)

1939– James Rutherford Morison (1853-1939), English surgeon. Described the Pouch of Rutherford Morison (1894) and BIPP: Bismuth, iodoform and paraffin paste (1916)

1987 – Carl Gunnar Engström (1912-1987), Swedish physician and engineer; invented the Engström respirator (1953)

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Further reading

• Durbin PW. Plutonium in Man: A twenty-five year review. 1971