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Helen B. Taussig
Helen Brooke Taussig was an American cardiologist, working in Baltimore and Boston, who founded the field of pediatric cardiology. She is credited with developing the concept for a procedure that would extend the lives of children born with Tetralogy of Fallot. This concept was applied in practice as a procedure known as the Blalock-Thomas-Taussig shunt. The procedure was developed by Alfred Blalo…
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science · American cardiologist (1898–1986) · cardiologist · physician · also Helen B. Taussig, Helen Brooke Taussig, Helen Taussig, Taussig
Born 24 May 1898 · Died 20 May 1986 · Q271531
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2026· 2 entries
“Heretofore there has been no satisfactory treatment for pulmonary stenosis and pulmonary atresia. A”
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2008· 1 entry
“The Truth about Primitive Life: The Road to Revolution”
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1995· 1 entry
“HIROSHIMA - Enola Gay's Crew Recalls The Flight Into a New Era”
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1987· 2 entries
Awarded Maryland Women's Hall of Fame (1987).
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Won George M. Kober Medal (1987).
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1986· 2 entries
Died 1986-05-20.
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Four days short of her 88th birthday, Taussig was driving a group of friends to vote in a local election when her car collided with another vehicle at an intersection
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1982· 1 entry
Won Elizabeth Blackwell Medal (1982).
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1979· 1 entry
“Well, it seems a very gloomy business.”
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1977· 2 entries
Awarded AMA Scientific Achievement Award (1977).
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Taussig moved to a retirement community in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
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1973· 1 entry
Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (1973).
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1971· 1 entry
Awarded John Howland Award (1971).
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1970· 1 entry
Awarded Elizabeth Blackwell Award (1970).
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1967· 1 entry
Won Carl-Ludwig Honorary Medal (1967).
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1964· 2 entries
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Lyndon B. Johnson (1964).
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Was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom
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1963· 1 entry
But continued to teach, give lectures, and lobby for various causes
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1959· 1 entry
Awarded Canada Gairdner International Award (1959).
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1954· 2 entries
Awarded Feltrinelli Prize (1954).
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Awarded Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award (1954).
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1949· 1 entry
The first to describe a heart condition now known as Taussig-Bing syndrome
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1947· 2 entries
Awarded E. Mead Johnson Award (1947).
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After a decade of gathering material, Taussig published her magnum opus, Congenital Malformations of the Heart, considered to be the foundational text of pediatric cardiology as an independent field
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1944· 1 entry
Blalock and Thomas performed the surgery on the first human patient
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1939· 1 entry
By Robert Gross corrected a common pediatric heart problem: patent ductus arteriosus
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1927· 1 entry
Taussig remained at Johns Hopkins as a cardiology fellow for one year and two years as a pediatrics intern and received two Archibald Fellowships
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1925· 1 entry
Published her first scientific paper on studies of ox heart muscles with her professor Alexander Begg
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1917· 1 entry
Then studied for two years at Radcliffe College before earning a bachelor's degree and Phi Beta Kappa membership from the University of California, Berkeley in 1921
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1898· 1 entry
Born 1898-05-24.
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1889· 1 entry
“The passage is restored as above by Bernays (Heraclitea i. p. 34), and Bywater (p. 43), from the following sources: Clement of Alex. Strom. v. 9, p. 682. Proclus in Alcib. p. 255 Creuzer, = 525 ed. Cous. ii. Clement of Alex. Strom. iv. 7, p. 586.”
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1821· 1 entry
“No ruler in the history of the world has ever been able to afford a war. They’re not affordable things. No prince ever says, ‘This is my budget, so this is the kind of war I can have.’ You enter into one and it uses up all the money you’ve got, and then it breaks you and bankrupts you.”
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1784· 1 entry
“Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View”
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