Reorganization of federal health programs placed FDA in the Public Health Service
In March 1968, a reorganization of federal health programs placed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in…
In March 1968, a reorganization of federal health programs placed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in…
In 1965, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, now known as Battelle Pacific Northwest Division, was founded in 1965…
On Aug. 30, 1964, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requested help in removing “X-33 Water Repellent”…
In 1963, the first biomedical and environmental research program began at Livermore. John Gofman, a distinguished professor at…
In 1962, Silent Spring, a book by marine biologist Rachel Carson, galvanized the first generation of environmentalists. Silent…
In Jun. 1960, the U.S. Congress passed an appropriations bill that included funding for a Federal Insect Laboratory…
On Sept. 2, 1952, the University of California Radiation Laboratory, now known as the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory…
On Aug. 26, 1952, Founders Day marks the date that Ernest Lawrence received permission to open up a…
In 1939, Louis Schwartz and H. R. Foerster described industrial dermatitis and melanosis due to photosensitization.
In May 1935, Kenneth Lynch and William Atmar Smith from the Medical College of South Carolina published an…
In 1914, the first modern sewage plant, designed to treat sewage with bacteria, opened in Manchester, England. There…
In 1913, Earle B. Phelps in the Division of Chemistry conducted a series of studies on water pollution…
In 1910, Joseph H. Kastle published “The oxidases and other oxygen – catalysts concerned in biological oxidations.”
In 1910, John F. Anderson and Wade H. Frost extended earlier studies on hypersensitivity and used for the…
In 1908, Drs. John F. Anderson, Leslie L. Lumsen and Wade H. Frost expanded scope of earlier typhoid…
Uncle Sam’s Christmas Presents by Bob Satterfield. The cartoon depicts Uncle Sam having received several cigars as Christmas…
In 1899, Flathead Lake Biological Station (FLBS) established near Bigfork in 1899 by Dr. Morton J. Elrod, Distinguished…
In 1859, the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences was established, and in 1872 the…
In 1809, French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck stated in “Philosophie Zoologique” that inheritable characteristics (soft inheritance) could be developed…
In 1800, a yellow fever outbreak killed 1,200 people in Baltimore. The presence of an abundance of mosquito-breeding…
In 1798, Thomas Malthus published “Principle of Population,” arguing that the world’s population will increase faster than the…
In 1629, sanitary legislation was drawn up in Venice that required health officers to visit homes during plague…