February 2020 - Neurocalendar

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 Granville Stanley Age-Related Macular Degeneration / Low Hall, founder of the Vision Awareness Month American Psychological Association (APA), was born in 1844. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 In 1859, the world's The first woman in the Nobel laureate In 1838, Eduard Hitzig Psychologist In 1892, Selig Hecht first mental hospital for US to earn an MD, Alan L. Hodgkin was born. He Alfred Adler was was born. His criminals opened in Elizabeth Blackwell, was born in 1914. examined the born in 1870. research is the New York. was born in 1821. electrical excitability of foundation of the brain. Nobel laureate modern vision Ulf von Euler was theory. born in 1905. 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Elizabeth Munsterberg In 1923, German The journal Charles Darwin, In 1882, Jean-Martin Hans Henning, an Koppitz was born in physicist Konrad Behavioral who developed Charcot presented the early researcher on 1919. She was an Roentgen died. He Neuroscience was the theory about first paper about the senses of smell expert in learning discovered X-rays and first published in evolution by hypnotism to the and taste, was born disabilities. won the first Nobel 1983. natural selection, French Academy of in 1885. prize in physics. was born in 1809. Sciences. 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 In 1790, Marshall Ophthalmologist The Journal of Adolphe Qutelet was Hall was born. He Hermann Snellen Psychology was first born in 1796. He pioneered the study was born in 1834. published in 1936. was the first to use of reflex He developed the the word "statistics. physiology. Snellen eye test. 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Allan M. Cormack, The first mental The antipsychotic David H. Hubel, who James D. Watson who won the Nobel hospital, inspired by a drug Loxitane was won the Nobel prize and Francis H.C. prize for his work with priest's sermon, was approved by the for his work on the Crick announce computer-assisted founded in Spain in FDA in 1975. visual system, was the structure of tomography, was born 1409. born in 1926. DNA in 1953. in 1924. Ethologist and Nobel prize winner Konrad Z. Lorenz died in 1989.