On Wed., 2/17 at 12pm ET we will host a virtual panel event. Speakers will discuss "Freud’s Drawings and the Visual Origins of Psychoanalysis" & introduce the online exhibit "The Interpretation of Drawings: #Freud and the Visual Origins of Psychoanalysis" https://t.co/PIieBm0h5D
The first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the first individual to be awarded two Nobel Prizes and still today the only individual with two Nobel Prizes in two different scientific categories: Marie Skłodowska Curie.
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How do our ears work? This question fascinated Nobel Laureate Georg von Békésy. To find out he painstakingly dissected structures that make up our inner ears, such as the tiny spiral-shaped cochlea, that transforms vibrations into neural signals for us to hear.
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Phoebus Levene was born #OTD in 1869. He was the first to discover the order of the three main components of a single nucleotide (phosphate-SUGAR-base) and to discover the carbohydrate component of #RNA (ribose).
His proposed tetranucleotide diagram in 1910, however, was wrong.
#OTD of 1865 Gregor Mendel presented his hybridization experiments on plants at the meeting of the Natural Society in Brno.
The experiments of artificial fertilization, carried out by the augustinian monk on ornamental plants and peas led him to develop his laws on inheritance.
These beautiful lithographs which show the mammary glands and lactiferous ducts, sectioned through the nipple, were drawn from anatomical preparations injected with coloured wax. From 'On the Anatomy of the Breast' by Astley Cooper, 1840. #Anatomy#Art#HistMed
A fascinating glimpse into Dr. Harvey Cushing’s collection of brains and his portfolio of patient photography. #anatomy#surgery#histmed
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Flying into the new week after Halloween, it's one of our favourite specimens in the @TeviotPlace collection, the skeleton of a Fruit Bat, also known as a Megabat (which certainly gives it more of a #CapedCrusader feel) [Our Ref: 3336] #bats#Batman