Waclaw Szybalski joined the McArdle Laboratory at UW-Madison and started pioneering studies
In 1960, Waclaw Szybalski joined the McArdle Laboratory at UW-Madison and started pioneering studies.
In 1960, Waclaw Szybalski joined the McArdle Laboratory at UW-Madison and started pioneering studies.
In 1960, the construction of the first McArdle building resulted from a gift by Michael W. McArdle. Dr….
In 1960, University of California Radiation Laboratory (Livermore) researchers, in a groundbreaking application of computers to study biology,…
On Nov. 16, 1959, Cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan), an alkylating agent designed to improve the selectivity of cancer drugs, was…
On Nov. 9, 1959, at the instruction of Arthur S. Flemming, the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare,…
On Oct. 9, 1959, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) transplanted its first organ, just the 18th successful…
On Sept. 23, 1959, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushcev visited the Iowa corn farm of seedman Roswell Garst to…
On Aug. 25, 1959, the National Medal of Science was established by the 86th Congress as a Presidential…
In 1959, the Priestley Medal was awarded to H. I. Schlesinger by the American Chemical Society “to recognize…
On May 4, 1959, the first major addition to the University of Washington Health Sciences Building, an eight-story,…
On Feb. 10, 1959, the FDA announced that nasal inhalers containing basic amphetamine can be sold only by…
In 1959, Lester R. Sauvage, MD founded the Reconstructive Cardiovascular Research Laboratory as a branch of Providence Seattle…
In 1959, Johnson ï¾ &ï¾ Johnson acquired McNeil Laboratories giving the Company a significant presence in the growing field…
In 1959, Siemens, now Sivantos, launched the Auriculette 326 its first behind-the-ear hearing instrument. The history of electrical…
In 1959, the Journal of the National Cancer Institute inaugurated a series of occasional publications as Monographs to…
In 1959, Min Chueh Chang pioneered in vitro fertilization. He was also co-inventor of the oral contraceptive pill.
In 1959, the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation recruited noted biochemist A. Baird Hastings from Harvard University, whose…
In 1959, the Salk Institute was initially envisioned by Jonas Salk, M.D., the developer of the polio vaccine,…
In 1959, University of California, Davis plant biologists Ralph Stocking and Ernest Gifford discovered that plant chlorplasts contain…
In 1959, William Prusoff of Yale University discovered idoxuridine, the first effective antiviral that fights herpes by interfering…
In 1959, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) developed a fluorescent antibody test for rabies, with…
In 1959, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established a Staphylococcus Surveillance Unit to coordinate…
In 1959, Arnel Hallauer became director of Iowa State University’s (ISU) maize breeding program. Hallauer was part of…
In 1959, Frederic N. Schwartz, president and CEO of Bristol-Myers, and then-treasurer Gavin K. MacBainï¾—later Schwartzï¾’s successor as…
In 1959, University of Western Ontario researchers Dr. Charles Beer and Dr. Robert L. Noble developed the anti-cancer…
In 1959, the Institute of Molecular Biology at the University of Oregon was founded.
On Dec. 9, 1958, the U.S. Congress enacted the Food Additives Amendment to the Federal Food, Drug, and…
On Oct. 8, 1958, Arne Larsson became the first to receive an implantable pacemaker. The first replacement, done…
On Sept. 6, 1958, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Food Additives Amendments were passed, requiring that…
On Jul. 29, 1958, President Dwight Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, leading to the birth…