1929 in Science - Medicine

Medicine

  • Alexander Fleming publishes an article about penicillin in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology, for which he will receive the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
  • Hans Berger discovers human electroencephalography

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