Dr. Mary Carpenter became the first female member of OMRF’s scientific staff
In 1954, Dr. Mary Carpenter became the first female member of Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) scientific staff…
In 1954, Dr. Mary Carpenter became the first female member of Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) scientific staff…
On Dec. 17, 1953, Howard Hughes signed documents that created the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, formed with the…
On Dec. 7, 1953, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved methotrexate, an antimetabolite derived from folic…
On Mar. 1, 1953, the University of California Radiation Laboratory, now known as the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory…
On Feb. 28, 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick announced the discovery of the double helical structure of…
In 1953, Betty Delores Stough became the first woman to earn a Ph.D. at the Virginia Agricultural and…
In 1953, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies was founded in La Jolla, California. For more than a…
In 1952, the first edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) was published and…
On Apr. 9, 1951, world boxing champion Sugar Ray Robinson defended his crown in Oklahoma City by knocking…
From 1951 to 1976, the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) treated some of the state’s sickest children, most…
On Dec. 17, 1950, five thousand Oklahomans attended an Open House for a newly dedicated OMRF research building….
On May 27, 1950, Washington University physician Evarts A. Graham, MD, and medical student Ernst Wynder published a…
In 1950, Drs. Edward C. Kendall and Philip S. Hench at the Mayo Clinic, along with Tadeus Reichstein,…
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….
On Jul. 4, 1949, Sir Alexander Fleming, the scientist who discovered penicillin, made his first visit to the…
In Jul. 1943, Construction of the original Madigan General Hospital began during the height of World War II…
In 1949, to help stem the spread of tuberculosis, the city of Seattle created a locked ward for…
On Sept. 21, 1948, a 28-year-old woman at Saint Marys Hospital (Mayo Clinic) in Rochester, MN received the…
In 1947, The first attempt at coordinating cancer at University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) was a…
On Mar. 5, 1947, ground was broken for the new University of Washington’s Health Sciences Building. The new…
In 1947, the Southeastern Michigan Division of the American Cancer Society created the Michigan Cancer Foundation to comply…
In 1947, Governor Roy J. Turner launched a fund drive that spanned all 77 of Oklahoma’s counties. In…
On Aug. 28, 1946, Oklahoma’s Secretary of State Frank C. Carter granted the charter of the Oklahoma Medical…
On Aug. 3, 1946, the articles of incorporation were signed by Governor Roy J. Turner that established the…
In 1946, Dr. Leonidas Harris Berry became the first black physician on staff at Michael Reese Hospital in…
On Aug. 8, 1945, the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (SKI) was established. A gift of $4 million…
On Jan. 25, 1945, at 4:00 p.m., Grand Rapids, Michigan, achieved a historic milestone by becoming the inaugural…
In 1945, W. Ray Bryan, Michael B. Shimkin, Howard B. Andervont, Herbert Kahler and Thelma B. Dunn published…
On Sept. 22, 1944, the War Department General Order Number 76 officially redesignated Fort Lewis General Hospital as…