On Dec. 16, 1941, the Texas Biomedical Research Institute began as the scientific dream of its founder, Thomas…
On Dec. 1, 1941, in response to the emergency need for insulin standards, the USP formed an Insulin…
On Oct. 11, 1941, the first wheels of Maytag Blue Cheese were formed when production of the cheese…
On Aug. 1, 1941, Floyd C. Turner published “Sarcomas at Sites of Subcutaneously Implanted Bakelite Disks in Rats”…
On Aug. 1, 1941, Harold L. Stewart and Egon Lorenz published an article in the Journal of the…
On Feb. 4, 1941, the Red Cross began a National Blood Donor Service to collect blood for the…
In January 1941, Ida A. Bengtson and Norman Topping published “Complement-Fixation in Rickettsial Diseases” in the American Journal…
In 1941, the Medical College of Virginia Hospital (MCV West Hospital) opened to national acclaim. The largest donation…
In 1941, Texas State Cancer Hospital, now known as the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, was…
In 1941, Connaught Laboratories at the University of Toronto developed the first combined vaccines for diphtheria, pertussis, and…
In 1941, Velmer A. Fassel, an American chemist who developed the inductively coupled plasma, received a B.A. degree…
In 1941, the Priestley Medal was awarded to Thomas Midgley by the American Chemical Society “to recognize distinguished…
In 1941, Charles Huggins discovers that blocking male hormones (by removal of the testicles or administration of estrogens)…
In 1941, the National Blood Donor Service was initiated by the Red Cross to collect blood for the…
In 1941, Dean Cowie and Leonard Scheele’s survey of procedures used in handling and storing radium loaned to…
In 1941, Danish microbiologist A. Jost coined the term genetic engineering in a lecture on sexual reproduction in…
In 1941, the Insulin Amendment was passed by the U.S. Congress requiring the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…
In 1941, Dr. Edward J. Baldes at the Mayo Clinic constructs a human centrifuge to simulate blackout, a…
In 1941, Washington University ﾖ St. Louis received the first cyclotron installed at a U.S. academic medical center.
On Jan. 1, 1941, Dr. Homer Stryker, an orthopaedic surgeon from Kalamazoo, Michigan, founded Stryker to provide medical…