One of the front-line defenses individuals have against the spread of the coronavirus can feel decidedly low-tech: hand-washing. In fact, it was 19th-century Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis who, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the history of science and exploration. As most of us discover a new obsession with washing our hands (and some people ...

Born in 1818, Semmelweis eventually went on to obtain a master’s degree in midwifery from the University of Vienna, and spent his initial tenure at the Vienna General Hospital in the mid 19th century, ...

Doctor Ignaz Semmelweis has been dead for 150 years but his simple discovery has saved countless lives in hospitals around the world - and never more so than during the coronavirus pandemic Amid the ...

As we continue to fight COVID-19, it is more important than ever to wash your hands regularly. To reinforce the point, in today’s Doodle Google honors Ignaz Semmelweis, the “father of infection ...

As we are all facing the coronavirus pandemic together as a global community, Google is using its platform as the most popular search engine to replace its homepage logo in nearly every country around ...

Speed cameras save lives. So, why are some states seeking to ban them? Ignaz Semmelweis was a Hungarian physician working in ...

It’s one of the best weapons in our arsenal right now against the coronavirus. Though washing our hands seems painfully obvious now, it wasn’t always that way. The importance of handwashing is thought ...

One of the front-line defenses individuals have against the spread of the coronavirus can feel decidedly low-tech: hand-washing. In fact, it was 19th-century Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis who, ...

Of all the lessons that life hands us, one of the toughest is that you can be right about something but still come up holding the smelly end of the stick. Typically this is learned early in life, but ...