Actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr co-patented a technology called ‘frequency hopping,’ a precursor to wireless communications
On Aug. 11, 1942, Hedy Lamarr, a renown actress and George Antheil , a composer and pianist, co-patented…
On Aug. 11, 1942, Hedy Lamarr, a renown actress and George Antheil , a composer and pianist, co-patented…
On Jul. 31, 1942, Karl Habel published “Transmission of Rubella to Macacus mulatta Monkeys” in Public Health Reports….
On Jun. 1, 1942, Jonathan L. Hartwell published a Survey of Compounds Which Have Been Tested For Carcinogenic…
In 1942, the Hektoen Institute opend in the former John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases, on South Wood…
In 1942, the Science Talent Search, America’s oldest and most highly regarded science contest for high school seniors…
In 1942, the first phage electron micrographs (EM) were published in 1940 in Germany and proved the particulate…
In 1942, penicillin was mass-produced in microbes. Purification and first clinical use of penicillin would take more than…
In 1942, Lloyd Felton, utilizing pneumoccal polysaccharides, demonstrated a phenomenon known as “immunological paralysis” or immune tolerance. Felton…
In 1942, Chester Emmons from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases first pointed out reservoirs of…
In 1942, a classic manual describing and illustrating the stages of the malaria parasites was prepared by Aimee…
In 1942, “Louisiana pneumonitis,” a human disease possibly related to psittacosis, was discovered and studied in great detail…
In 1942, Willard H. Wright, Eloise Cram, Walter Newton and their colleagues in the NIH Division of Zoologye…
In 1942, Austrian physiatrist Karl Theodore Dussik published a paper on the medical application of ultrasonics in his…
In 1942, the Malaria Control in War Areas (MCWA) agency was established in Atlanta, Georgia, now known as…
In 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt publicly denounced germ warfare as an inhumane form of warfare. Privately, he approved…
In 1942, influenza A/B vaccine was introduced to the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board. The vaccine was effective against…
In 1942, the first intravenous chemotherapy treatment of a cancer patient was performed at Yale.
In 1942, Yale cancer research began when the first use of a cancer drug was administered to a…
In 1942, Dr. Jonas Salk arrived at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Techniques earned there…
In 1942, the U.S. government with the military secretly tasked a small group of Mayo Clinic physicians and…
In 1942, The Hormel Institute was founded by Jay C. Hormel in Austin to research and find a…
In 1942, tte Medical Research Foundation (MRF) was founded by a group of Potland area businessmen and physicians…
In 1942, The Medical College of Virginia organized a medical unit to serve during the war from 1942-45….
In 1942, the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College’s first Ph.D. was awarded to Nathan Sugarman in chemistry. In…
In 1942, Dr. William Hutchinson began a 47 year career in Seattle, Washington when he joined the Swedish…
On Dec. 16, 1941, the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research (SFBR), San Antonio’s first biomedical research organization, was…
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, Harold L. Stewart and Egon Lorenz published an article in the Journal of the…
On Aug. 1, 1941, Floyd C. Turner published “Sarcomas at Sites of Subcutaneously Implanted Bakelite Disks in Rats”…