In 1950, Dorland J. Davis and Margaret Pittman identified the causative organism (Koch-Weeks bacillus) of epidemic bacterial conjunctivitis….
In 1950, Earl Stadtman of the NIH discovered phosphotransacetylose, elucidating the role of acetyl CoA in fatty acid…
In 1950, Shell Chemical Company’s Aldrin, one of the deadliest chemicals available, was used by the U.S. government…
In 1950, the Oleomargarine Act required prominent labeling of colored oleomargarine, to distinguish it from butter. In 1886,…
In 1950, in Alberty Food Products Co. v. U.S. , a court of appeals rules that the directions…
In 1950, the Delaney Committee started congressional investigation of the safety of chemicals in foods and cosmetics, laying…
In 1950, the U.S. Army tests the spread and survival of simulants, which are actually Serratia marcescens bacteria,…
In 1950, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) formed a committee on air-borne disease studies,…
In 1950, Sidney Farber and colleagues achieved the first remissions in Wilms tumor of the kidney, a common…
In 1950, Schepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts Eye and Ear was founded to fight blindness by developing…
In 1950, the Michigan Cancer Foundation and the American Cancer Society began sponsoring new cancer research and outreach…
In 1950, Dr. C. Walton Lillehei at the University of Minnesota (UMN) performed surgery on Mike Shaw from…
In 1950, in Room 64 of the Banting Institute at the University of Toronto, Drs. Wilfred Bigelow and…
In 1950, the MCSC admitted its first students to the Graduate Studies Program. The College of Graduate Studies…
In 1950, Michael E. DeBakey, M.D. was recruited by Baylor College of Medicine in Houston as its new…
In 1950, Prosthetic designers gradually replaced wood and leather with newer materials. J.E. Hanger of Washington created a…
In 1950, by the age of 31 Dr. Isabella Aiona Abbot had received a PhD in botany from…
On Nov. 2, 1949, Sandia Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Electric, took over management of Sandia…
On Oct. 9, 1949, the University of Washington’s Health Sciences Building was dedicated on the university’s Seattle campus….
In Jul. 1943, Construction of the original Madigan General Hospital began during the height of World War II…
In 1949, Jewel Plummer Cobb, Ph.D. became an independent investigator at the Marine Biological Laboratory, where she studied…
On May 4, 1949, the diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and pertussis (DTP) vaccine was licensed. A greater than…
May 1949, Mental Health Awareness Month was first declared. In 2006, Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day was chosen…
On Mar. 2, 1949, Louis Olivier published “The Penetration of Dermatitis-Producing Schistosome Cercariae” in the American Journal of…
In 1949, Ethicon was formed from Johnson ﾠ&ﾠ Johnson’s heritage suture business.
In 1949, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) was founded in New York. The LLS mission is to…
In 1949, Dr. Jonas Salk, with grants from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, the Pitt team and…
In 1949, Canadaﾒs first full-time cancer physicist, Dr. Harold Johns, led the world in development the cobalt bomb…
In 1949, The Medical College of Virginia Foundation (MCV) was incorporated with the mission to inspire and steward…
In 1949, to help stem the spread of tuberculosis, the city of Seattle created a locked ward for…