Baseball legend Lou Gehrig delivered the famous farewell speech bidding to fans
On Jul. 4, 1939, baseball legend Lou Gehrig delivered the famous speech bidding farewell to the ballpark and…
On Jul. 4, 1939, baseball legend Lou Gehrig delivered the famous speech bidding farewell to the ballpark and…
On Apr. 25, 1939, the Federal Security Agency (FSA), now known as the Department of Health, Education, and…
In 1939, the Medical College of Georgia researcher Dr. Sydenstricker was nominated for a Nobel Prize in Physiology…
In 1939, embryologist E.E. Just published The Biology of the Cell Surface, and pioneered ideas about the importance…
In 1939, the National Malaria Society was founded. In 1951, the criteria for eradication as put forth by…
In 1939, Elizabeth Kenny, or Sister Kenny, as nurses were called in Australia, came to the U.S. in…
In 1939, Lewis L. Coriell published a paper on an aspect of science he would revolutionize: His pioneering…
In 1939, The Cook County Hospital acquired the West Side Hospital at Harrison and Wolcott Streets in Chicago.
In 1939, University of Iowa researcher W.D. “Shorty” Paul developed the concept for buffered aspirin. In 1917, the…
In 1939, Rene Dubos isolates gramicidin, an antibiotic, from a common soil microbe. His discovery helps cure a…
In 1939, Storrs Agricultural School became the University of Connecticut. Today, the University of Connecticut has grown to…
In 1939, the First Food Standards were issued (canned tomatoes, tomato puree, and tomato paste).
In 1939, the first large-scale deliberate release of bacteria into the environment takes place when Bp is sprayed…
In 1939, Margaret Pittman showed that sulfapyradine was effective against nontype-specific Haemophilus influenzae. Pittman discovered that there are…
In 1939, Hugh G. Grady and Harold L. Stewart first identified the type II cell of the pulmonary…
In 1939, Louis Schwartz and H. R. Foerster described industrial dermatitis and melanosis due to photosensitization.
In 1939, Charles Armstrong adapted the Lansing strain of poliomyelitis to cotton rats and then to laboratory mice,…