On Apr. 22, 1970, the first Earth Day was held and the modern environmental movement was born. A…
On Jan. 1, 1970, President Richard Nixon signed the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) into law and launched…
In 1970, the Southern Corn Leaf Blight (SCLB) sweeps across the South, destroying 15% of the U.S. corn…
In 1970, the National Communicable Disease Center (NCDC) was renamed the Center for Disease Control (CDC). The scope…
On Oct. 3, 1969, a proposal to establish “Earth Day” was submitted by John McConnell to Peter Tamaris…
In March 1968, a reorganization of federal health programs placed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in…
In 1966, Thermus aquaticus was first discovered in the Mushroom Pool of Lower Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National…
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”…
On Jun. 20, 1964, a team of researchers led by Dr. Thomas Brock, then a professor at the…
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…
In Jul. 1955, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) sprayed DDT as…
In 1954, first large-scale radiological examination of food carried out by U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) when…
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 1950, Roger M. Cole and Byron J. Olson in collaboration with Veterans Administration physicians conducted epidemiologic studies…
In 1950, by the age of 31 Dr. Isabella Aiona Abbot had received a PhD in botany from…
On Jan. 25, 1945, at 4:00 p.m., Grand Rapids, Michigan, achieved a historic milestone by becoming the inaugural…
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 1928, Thimerosal was commercialized by Eli Lilly under the trade name Merthiolate, an antiseptic solution containing thimerosal,…
In 1928, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, grew from the work of Dr. John Johnson, a biology professor at…
In 1923, William Mansfield Clark from the U.S. Department of Agriculture alerted the public to the dangers of…
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, John F. Anderson and Wade H. Frost extended earlier studies on hypersensitivity and used for the…
In 1910, Joseph H. Kastle published “The oxidases and other oxygen – catalysts concerned in biological oxidations.”
In 1899, Flathead Lake Biological Station (FLBS) established near Bigfork in 1899 by Dr. Morton J. Elrod, Distinguished…