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8 October — On this day in medicine

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Otto Heinrich Warburg in his laboratory in 1931, photographed by Georg Pahl. — Otto Warburg, 1931
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Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-12525 / Georg Pahl / CC-BY-SA 3.0 DE
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1883 · Birth

Otto Heinrich Warburg: measuring cellular respiration

Born on 8 October 1883 in Freiburg, Otto Heinrich Warburg received the 1931 medicine Nobel for research on the respiratory enzyme. His birth, award and tumour-metabolism research are separate landmarks.

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César Milstein among participants at the “Monoclonal Antibodies” seminar, 24 September 1993.
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History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group / Wellcome Library / Wikimedia Commons
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1927 · Birth

César Milstein: making antibodies reproducible

César Milstein was born on 8 October 1927 in Bahía Blanca, Argentina. With Georges Köhler, he developed hybridoma technology in 1975, before sharing the 1984 medicine Nobel with Köhler and Niels Kaj Jerne.

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