1 November — On this day in medicine

Crawford Williamson Long was born on 1 November 1815 in Danielsville, Georgia. The American physician was a pioneer of surgical ether anaesthesia, using it during operations in 1842 and publishing his observations in 1849.

John Farquhar Fulton was born on 1 November 1899 in Saint Paul, United States. A neurophysiologist and medical historian, he conducted research at Oxford and later Yale. He also helped establish Yale’s Medical Historical Library.

Severo Ochoa died in Madrid on 1 November 1993. The biochemist and enzymologist shared the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Arthur Kornberg. His research, including work on polynucleotide phosphorylase, contributed to the study and synthesis of nucleic acids.