It's the birthday of one half of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera writing team, Arthur Seymour Sullivan , born in London in He began collaborating with William Gilbert in , and the pair would go on to write 14 enormously popular comic operas, including Trial by Jury , The Mikado , and The Pirates of Penzance , and others. It's the birthday of Greek doctor Georgios Nicholas Papanikolaou , born in Kimi, Greece , who gave us the Pap smear, the highly effective, inexpensive, and widely used screening test for detecting signs of cervical cancer and other diseases of the female reproduction system.
It was in at a conference in Battle Creek, Michigan, that he first reported his method of detecting cancer: a spatula and brush are used to swipe cells from the outer opening of the cervix, and then the cells are positioned on a glass slide, and examined for abnormalities using a microscope. But at first other doctors were extremely skeptical that such a seemingly simple test could really be effective for detecting cancer, and it took more than a decade and half for his method to catch on.
In the early s, he co-authored with an esteemed gynecologist a paper about the test, and then a big case study was published with accompanying illustrations. It was then that doctors around the world began to use the Pap test regularly. It's the birthday of poet Kathleen Jamie , books by this author born in Renfrewshire, Scotland She's not particularly well known, but many critics consider her to be one of the best living poets in the U.
When she was 19, she was given a writing award and she used the money to go travel around the Himalayas. The next year, when she was still in college studying philosophy, she published her first book of poems, Black Spiders But says she never really intended to be a writer.
She kept writing because all other job prospects seemed "appalling. There must be a way of getting around this She usually writes about nature. In "The Whale-Watcher," she wrote, "And when at last the road gives out, I'll walk — harsh grass, sea-maws, lichen-crusted bedrock — and hole up the cold summer in some battered caravan, quartering the brittle waves.
She said: "When we were young, we were told that poetry is about voice, about finding a voice and speaking with this voice, but the older I get I think it's not about voice, it's about listening and the art of listening, listening with attention.
I don't just mean with the ear; bringing the quality of attention to the world. The writers I like best are those who attend. Her most recent collection, Waterlight: Selected Poems was the first of her books to be published in the United States.
In addition to these accolades for her poetry she has also published two striking collections of prose essays on the natural world, Findings and Sightlines All these elements to her writing are carried with great honesty into her recent collaboration with artist Brigid Collins. The producer was Richard Carrington.
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