In 1953, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies was founded in La Jolla, California. For more than a…
In Oct. 1952, Dr. William McDowall Hammon of the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health published…
On Sept. 2, 1952, Dr. C. Walton Lillehei professor of surgery at the University of Minnesota, participtade in…
On Jul. 2, 1952, Dr. Jonas Salk first innoculated children at the D. T. Watson Home for Crippled…
On Jun. 12, 1952, Dr. Jonas Salk went to the D. T. Watson Home for Crippled Children (now…
In Jun. and Jul. of 1952, Dr. William Hammon continued with his gamma globulin Polio vaccine field trials…
In 1952, the first edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) was published and…
In 1952, the summer of 1952 recorded 57,628 cases, the worst polio epidemic in U.S. history. This added…
In 1952, Dr. Jonas Salk and his team found monkey kidney tissue to be the most fertile environment…
On Apr. 9, 1951, world boxing middleweight champion Sugar Ray Robinson defended his crown in Oklahoma City by…
In March 1951, Dr. Herman Branson co-authored a paper alongside Linus Pauling and Robert Corey, detailing the structure…
On Feb. 8, 1951, Henrietta Lacks, a tobacco farmer from Virginia died from cervical cancer, and a scientist…
From 1951 to 1976, the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) treated some of the state’s sickest children, most…
In 1951, Lewis L. Coriell whose history in polio research began during his residency at Children’s Hospital of…
In 1951, Dr. Jonas Salk and his team began using Dr. John F. Enders’ methods to grow poliovirus,…
On Dec. 17, 1950, five thousand Oklahomans attended an Open House for a newly dedicated OMRF research building….
In 1950, by the age of 31 Dr. Isabella Aiona Abbot had received a PhD in botany from…
In 1950, Drs. Edward C. Kendall and Philip S. Hench at the Mayo Clinic, along with Tadeus Reichstein,…
In 1950, physician Audrey Smith reported the use of glycerol cryoprotectant for red blood cells. During her work…
In 1950, Roger M. Cole and Byron J. Olson in collaboration with Veterans Administration physicians conducted epidemiologic studies…
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…
In 1949, at Harvard, John F. Enders, Ph.D., a Yale College graduate, Frederick C. Robbins, M.D., and Thomas…
In 1949, Dr. Jonas Salk, with grants from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, the Pitt team and…
On Apr. 14, 1948, John Roderick Heller became the fourth and longest serving director of the National Cancer…
On Apr. 6, 1948, President Harry Truman appointed Leonard A. Scheele as U.S. Surgeon General. Scheele served as Surgeon…
In 1948, the National Institute of Health was reorganized into the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Rocky…
In 1948, Dr. Isabel M. Morgan led a team that successfully inoculated monkeys with a killed-virurs vaccine. From…
On Dec. 12, 1947, little-known geneticist Barbara McClintock issued her first report on transposable elements – known today…