The report of the President’s Commission on Heart Disease, Cancer, and Stroke was published
On Dec. 9. 1964, President Johnson received the report of the President’s Commission on Heart Disease, Cancer and…
On Dec. 9. 1964, President Johnson received the report of the President’s Commission on Heart Disease, Cancer and…
On Nov. 23, 1964, Dr. Michael DeBakey and his team performed the first successful coronary artery bypass graft…
On Nov. 12, 1964, Fred Hutchinson, a standout pitcher at Seattle’s Franklin High School and ten year pitching…
On Aug. 30, 1964, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requested help in removing “X-33 Water Repellent”…
On Jun. 20, 1964, a team of researchers led by Dr. Thomas Brock, then a professor at the…
On Jun. 1, 1964, the Mini-1 dialysis machine was delivered to the University of Washington (UW) Hospital and…
In May 1964, Dr. John E. Buhler was named dean of the School of Dentistry. The College graduated…
In May 1964, Blair Simmons and a Stanford University colleague implanted a 6-electrode array into the modiolus of…
On Apr. 1, 1964 Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, a psychoactive substance found in the cannabis plant, was isolated by Yehiel Gaoni…
In March 1964, the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (ACIP) to the U.S. Public Health Service was formed to…
On Jan. 16, 1964, a team of doctors led by Dr. James D. Hardy, professor of surgery and…
On Jan. 16, 1964, Dr. Charles T. Dotter at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), considered the father…
On Jan. 13, 1964, the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine was founded with its origins in…
On Jan. 11, 1964 U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry released the first government report that concluded smoking may…
In 1964, the construction of the first McArdle building resulted from a bequest by Michael W. McArdle, a…
In 1964, Dr. Jonas Salk left the University of Pittsburgh to devote his full attention to the Salk…
In 1964, Dr. Petar Alaupovic from the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) created a classification and naming system…
In 1964, Albert Einstein College of Medicine was the first medical school in the U.S. to establish a…
In 1964, John N. Couch received the North Carolina Award for Science. Dr. Couch was internationally recognized for…
In 1964, the anticancer drug Azidothymidine (AZT) was synthesized in Michigan Cancer Foundation’s chemistry lab by Jerome Horwitz,…
In 1964, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) was founded under the National Academy of Science (NAS) charter….
In 1964, the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation, organized in 1948, became the Arthritis Foundation in 1964. Since its…
In 1964, the FAO, backed by the U.N. Special Fund, sets up the Crop Research and Introduction Centre…
In 1964, the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines started the Green Revolution with new strains of…
In 1964, the Mexican Agriculture Program (MAP) was the The Rockefeller Foundationメs first intensive agricultural endeavor begun in…
In 1964, live, further attenuated measles virus vaccine (Lirugen by Pitman Moore-Dow based on the Schwarz strain, derived…
In 1964, a rubella epidemic swept the U.S. resulting in 12.5 million cases of rubella infection, an estimated…
In 1964, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her determinations by X-ray techniques of…
In 1964, the American Chemical Society awarded the Priestley Medal to John C. Bailar, Jr. “to recognize distinguished…
In 1964, Bernard Rimland, a research psychologist and father of a son with Rimland, published Infantile Autism, a…