Stent out. Others attribute the noun "stent" to Jan F. Esser, a Dutch plastic surgeon who in 1916 used the word to describe a dental impression compound invented in 1856 by the English dentist Charles Stent (1807–1885), whom Esser employed to craft a form for facial reconstruction. The full account is described in the "Journal of the History of Dentistry". According to the author, from the use of Stent's compound as a support for facial tissues evolved the use of a stent to hold open various bodily structures. The first (self-expanding) "stents" used in medical practice in 1986 by Ulrich Sigwart
Gunther Stent These personal memories illustrated the unique intellectual spirit of the phage group during its early crucial years (1948–1950). His introductory textbook, "Molecular Genetics; an Introductory Narrative" has been translated into Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish. He was perhaps most generally known for his works on the progress of science, especially his 1969 lectures at Berkeley published as "The Coming of the Golden Age". Stent lectured in the molecular biology portion of Biology 1 at UC Berkeley. He had a very unusual lecture style; he introduced the major experiments that advanced the field of molecular biology in chronological order. It provided