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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

COMPUTING/MATHEMATICS in Medicine & Biology

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1531Tacuini sanitatis Elluchasem Elimithar Medici de Baldath, de sex rebus non naturalibus, earum naturis, operationibus, & rectificationibus, publico omnium usui, conseruandae sanitatis, recens exarati. Albengnefit De uirtutibus medicinarum, & ciborum. Iac. Alkindus De rerum gradibus.
IBN BUTLĀN, Abuʾl-Ḥasan Al-Mukhtār Ibn ʿAbdūn Ibn SaʿDūn. ابو الحسن المختار ابن عبدون ابن بطلان (Elluchasem Elimithar) ( – 1068) IBN AL-WAFID, Ali Ibn al-Husain (Abenguefit) (997 – 1074) AL-KINDĪ, Abu Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ ;أبو يوسف يعقوب بن إسحاق الصبّاح الكندي‎‎ ( Alkindus) (801 – 873) WEIDITZ, Hans The Younger (1495 – 1537)
1667Elementorum myologiae specimen.
STENO, Nicolas [Niels Steensen, Nicholaus Stenonis] (1638 – 1686)
1708An account of animal secretion, the quantity of blood in the humane body, and muscular motion.
KEILL, James (1673 – 1719)
1710An argument for Divine Providence, taken from the constant regularity observed in the births of both sexes.
ARBUTHNOT, John (1667 – 1735)
ARBUTHNOT, John (1667 – 1735)
1731Tabular observations recommended as the plainest and surest way of practising and improving physick. In a letter to a friend.
CLIFTON, Francis ( – 1836)
1732The state of physick, ancient and modern, briefly considered: with a plan for the improvement of it.
CLIFTON, Francis ( – 1836)
1763An essay towards solving a problem in the doctrine of chances
BAYES, Thomas (1701 – 1761)
BAYES, Thomas (1701 – 1761)
1779Observations on the management of the prevailing diseases particularly in the Army and Navy; together with a review of that in other countries, and arithmetical calculations of the comparative success of different methods of cure.
MILLAR, John (1733 – 1805)
MILLAR, John (1733 – 1805)
1825On the nature of the function expressive of the law of human mortality, and on a new mode of determining the value of life contingencies.
GOMPERTZ, Benjamin (1779 – 1865)
GOMPERTZ, Benjamin (1779 – 1865)
1838Notice sur la loi que la population suit dans son accroissement.
VERHULST, Pierre François (1804 – 1849)
VERHULST, Pierre François (1804 – 1849)
1845Recherches mathématiques sur la loi d’accroissement de la population.
VERHULST, Pierre François (1804 – 1849)
VERHULST, Pierre François (1804 – 1849)
1859On the construction of life-tables, illustrated by a new life-table of the healthy districts of England.
FARR, William (1807 – 1883)
FARR, William (1807 – 1883)
1860Elemente der Psychophysik. 2 vols.
FECHNER, Gustav Theodor (1801 – 1887)
FECHNER, Gustav Theodor (1801 – 1887)
1860On the law of mortality and the construction of annuity tables.
MAKEHAM, William Matthews (1826 – 1891)
1864English life table. Tables of lifetimes, annuities, and premiums.
FARR, William (1807 – 1883)
FARR, William (1807 – 1883)
1878Ueber die Vortheile der Mimicry bei Schmetterlingen.
MÜLLER, Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) (1821 – 1897)
1883Inquiries into human faculty and its development.
GALTON, Sir Francis (1822 – 1911)
GALTON, Sir Francis (1822 – 1911)
1885Vital statistics. A memorial volume of selections from the reports and writings of William Farr.
FARR, William (1807 – 1883)
FARR, William (1807 – 1883)
1899Die Grundform des arteriellen Pulses.
FRANK, Otto (1865 – 1944)
1902Iatromathematiker vornehmlich im 15. und 16. Jahrundert.
SUDHOFF, Karl Friedrich Jakob (1853 – 1938)
SUDHOFF, Karl Friedrich Jakob (1853 – 1938)
1908Mendelian proportions in a mixed population.
HARDY, Godfrey Harold (1877 – 1947)
1908Überden Nachweis der Vererbung beim Menschen.
WEINBERG, Wilhelm (1836 – 1937)
1908Design in nature illustrated by spiral and other arrangements in the inorganic and organic kingdoms as exemplified in matter, force, life, growth, rhythms, &c., especially in crystals, plants, and animals. 3 vols.
PETTIGREW, James Bell (1834 – 1908)
PETTIGREW, James Bell (1834 – 1908)
1917On growth and form.
THOMPSON, D'Arcy Wentworth (1860 – 1948)
THOMPSON, D'Arcy Wentworth (1860 – 1948)
1918The correlation between relatives on the supposition of Mendelian inheritance.
FISHER, Sir Ronald Aylmer (1890 – 1962)
FISHER, Sir Ronald Aylmer (1890 – 1962)
1924Ergebniss einer biostatischen zusammenfassenden Betrachtung über die erblichen Blutstrukturen des Menschen.
BERNSTEIN, Felix (1878 – 1956)
BERNSTEIN, Felix (1878 – 1956)
1926Variazioni e fluttuazioni del numero d’individui in specie animali conviventi.
VOLTERRA, Vito (1860 – 1940)
VOLTERRA, Vito (1860 – 1940)
1930The genetical theory of natural selection.
FISHER, Sir Ronald Aylmer (1890 – 1962)
FISHER, Sir Ronald Aylmer (1890 – 1962)
1932The causes of evolution.
HALDANE, John Burdon Sanderson (1892 – 1964)
1943A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity.
MCCULLOCH, Warren Sturgis (1898 – 1969)
PITTS, Walter Harry Jr. (1923 – 1969)
PITTS, Walter Harry Jr. (1923 – 1969)
1945On the use of matrices in certain population mathematics.
LESLIE, Patrick Holt (1900 – 1972)
1948Cybernetics: or control and communication in the animal and the machine.
WIENER, Norbert (1894 – 1964)
WIENER, Norbert (1894 – 1964)
1949The Army Medical Library research project at the Welch Medical Library.
LARKEY, Sanford Vincent (1898 – 1969)
1949X-ray crystallographic investigation of the structure of penicillin. IN: Clarke, Johnson, Robinson (eds.) Chemistry of penicillin (1949) 310-67.
HODGKIN, Dorothy Crowfoot (1910 – 1994) ROGERS-LOW, Barbara Wharton (1920 – 2019)
1949The mind of mechanical man.
JEFFERSON, Sir Geoffrey (1886 – 1961)
1951​–1952The computation of Fourier syntheses with a digital electronic calculating machine.
BENNETT, John Makepeace (1921 – 2010)
KENDREW, Sir John Cowdery (1917 – 1997)
KENDREW, Sir John Cowdery (1917 – 1997)
1953The Welch Medical Library indexing project.
LARKEY, Sanford Vincent (1898 – 1969)
1953Switching systems as mechanized brains.
MESZAR, John
1958A three-dimensional model of the myoglobin molecule obtained by x-ray analysis.
KENDREW, Sir John Cowdery (1917 – 1997)
KENDREW, Sir John Cowdery (1917 – 1997) DINTZIS, Howard M.
1959Reasoning foundations of medical diagnosis.
LEDLEY, Robert Steven (1926 – 2012)
LEDLEY, Robert Steven (1926 – 2012) LUSTED, Lee B. (1922 – 1994)
1959Digital recording of electrocardiographic data for analysis by a digital computer.
TABAK, L. MARDEN, E. MASON, H. L. PIPBERGER, Hubert V.
1959Programs with Common Sense. IN: Mechanisation of thought processes, Proceedings of the Symposium of the National Physics Laboratory, pages 77-84.
MCCARTHY, John (1927 – 2011)
MCCARTHY, John (1927 – 2011)
1960Structure of myoglobin: A three-dimensional Fourier synthesis at 2 Å resolution.
KENDREW, Sir John Cowdery (1917 – 1997)
KENDREW, Sir John Cowdery (1917 – 1997) & et al.
1960Recursive functions of symbolic expressions and their computation by machine, Part 1.
MCCARTHY, John (1927 – 2011)
MCCARTHY, John (1927 – 2011)
1961Bionics Symposium. Living prototypes-the key to new technology. Wadd Technical Report 60-600. Edited by Joan C. Robinette.
ROBINETTE, Joan C.
1962Data acquisition and processing in biology and medicine. Proceedings of the 1961 Rochester conference. Edited by Kurt Enslein.
ENSLEIN, Kurt (1924 – 2015)
1963The MEDLARS story at the National Library of Medicine.
U.S. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE
1963Representation of a Function by its Line Integrals, with Some Radiological Applications.
CORMACK, Allan McLeod (1924 – 1998)
CORMACK, Allan McLeod (1924 – 1998)
1964HPP-64-1 DENDRAL-64-A system for computer construction, enumeration and notation of organic molecules as three structures and cyclic graphs. Interim report to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, December 15, (1964).
LEDERBERG, Joshua (1925 – 2008)
LEDERBERG, Joshua (1925 – 2008)
1964Automated multiphasic screening and diagnosis.
COLLEN, Morris Frank (1913 – 2014)
COLLEN, Morris Frank (1913 – 2014) RUBIN, Leonard
NEYMAN, Jerzy (1894 – 1981)
NEYMAN, Jerzy (1894 – 1981)
DANTZIG, George Bernard (1914 – 2005)
DANTZIG, George Bernard (1914 – 2005) & et al.