Sir Alexander Fleming observed a culture of mold inhibiting growth of Staphylococcus bacteria in a petri dish
In 1928, Sir Alexander Fleming observed a culture of mold and discovered that the antibacterial substance was not…
In 1928, Sir Alexander Fleming observed a culture of mold and discovered that the antibacterial substance was not…
In 1928, Dr. Eaton MacKay was invited from Stanford University to become the first director of research at…
In 1928, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, grew from the work of Dr. John Johnson, a biology professor at…
On Feb. 19, 1927, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) completed its first licensing agreement with the Quaker…
In 1927, George Washington Carver invented a process for producing paints and stains from soybeans, and was issued…
In 1927 an alliance was formed between Roswell Garst and Henry Wallace to develop and promote hybrid seed…
In 1927, the iron lung was developed by Philip Drinker and Louis Agassiz Shaw at Harvard School of…
In 1927, The Danforth Foundation was a private, independent foundation established in 1927 by William H. Danforth founder…
In 1926, a statue of Balto, the heroic lead dog in the Iditarod Trail, used to transport diphtheria…
In 1926, Doernbecher Memorial Hospital for Children was built on the Marquam Hill campus and becomes the first…
On Nov. 14, 1925, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents filed the charter for the Wisconsin Alumni…
On Jun. 22, 1925, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents officially established the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation…
On May 4, 1925, a Chattanooga newspaper ran an item noting that the American Civil Liberties Union was…
On Mar. 21, 1925, Tennessee Governor Austin Peay signed the Butler Act (Tenn. HB 185, 1925) which prohibited…
On Mar. 13, 1925, the Tennessee Senate approved the Butler bill 24 to 6 called for a ban…
In 1925, the Cook County Hospital treated nearly 42,000 patients, and a new building program began at a…
On Dec. 11, 1924, The Scripps Metabolic Clinic, a predecessor of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), was founded…
On Feb. 14, 1924, the Harrison Narcotic Act required prescriptions for products exceeding the allowable limit of narcotics…
On Oct. 14, 1923, plans were announced for Doernbecher Memorial Hospital for Children. Frank S. Doernbecher was a…
In 1923, William Mansfield Clark from the U.S. Department of Agriculture alerted the public to the dangers of…
On Dec. 4, 1921, the first observance of American Education Week began, running until December 10 with the…
In 1921, future President of the U.S. Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) became a victim of polio at the…
In 1921, Frederick Banting and Charles Best who extracted the hormone insulin from the pancreas’ of dogs in…
In 1921, Hollister-Stier Laboratories, located in Spokane, is the oldest name in allergy science. The company was founded…
In 1920, Dr. Albert C. Broders, a surgical pathologist at the Mayo Clinic, published a description of a…
In 1919, Edward Francis extended the earlier observations on tularemia. His other studies, continued into the 1920s, clarified…
On Dec. 23, 1918, the Cincinnati Board of Health removed its ban prohibiting children from entering public places….
By Nov. 16, 1918, the New York influenza figures overall, from September 15 through November 16 – the…
On Sept. 21, 1918, between the start of Chicago’s epidemic and the removal of restrictions on Nov. 16,…
In 1918, Alice C. Evans described the organism that caused undulant fever. Despite severe and persistent criticism of…