Leo Kanner published the first clinical description of 11 children with autism
In 1943, Leo Kanner, a child psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University, published the first clinical description of 11…
In 1943, Leo Kanner, a child psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University, published the first clinical description of 11…
In 1943, George Nicholas Papanicolaou and Herbert Traut published their landmark book “Diagnosis of Uterine Cancer by the…
In 1943, Wilton R. Earle of NCI, who had in the 1930’s pioneered the process of growing cells…
In 1943, Sanford M. Rosenthal, Herbert Tabor, R. Carl Millican, and Kehl Markley demonstrated that shock in burn…
In 1943, Harold W. Chalkley devised a method that now bears his name for the quantitative morphologic analysis…
In 1943, The Detroit Institute for Cancer Research was incorporated with just $483 and 200 shares of General…
In 1943, Mike Mansfield served Montana as Representative and Senator in the U.S. Congress for thiry-four years, and…
In 1943, Bristol-Myers bought Cheplin Laboratoriesラa Syracuse, New York, manufacturer of acidophilus milkラand broke ground for a new…
In 1943, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory was formed to work on the Manhattan Project. Its research shfited…
On Oct. 23, 1942, Francis Arnold Jr. reported that Syrian hamsters fed a human-like diet developed dental diseases…
On Aug. 27, 1942, chemotherapy was first used to treat a cancer patient and the beginning of its…
On Aug. 11, 1942, Hedy Lamarr, a renown actress and George Antheil , a composer and pianist, co-patented…
On Jul. 31, 1942, Karl Habel published “Transmission of Rubella to Macacus mulatta Monkeys” in Public Health Reports….
On Jun. 1, 1942, Jonathan L. Hartwell published a Survey of Compounds Which Have Been Tested For Carcinogenic…
In 1942, the Hektoen Institute opend in the former John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases, on South Wood…
In 1942, the Science Talent Search, America’s oldest and most highly regarded science contest for high school seniors…
In 1942, the first phage electron micrographs (EM) were published in 1940 in Germany and proved the particulate…
In 1942, penicillin was mass-produced in microbes. Purification and first clinical use of penicillin would take more than…
In 1942, Lloyd Felton, utilizing pneumoccal polysaccharides, demonstrated a phenomenon known as “immunological paralysis” or immune tolerance. Felton…
In 1942, Chester Emmons from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases first pointed out reservoirs of…
In 1942, a classic manual describing and illustrating the stages of the malaria parasites was prepared by Aimee…
In 1942, “Louisiana pneumonitis,” a human disease possibly related to psittacosis, was discovered and studied in great detail…
In 1942, Willard H. Wright, Eloise Cram, Walter Newton and their colleagues in the NIH Division of Zoologye…
In 1942, Austrian physiatrist Karl Theodore Dussik published a paper on the medical application of ultrasonics in his…
In 1942, the Malaria Control in War Areas (MCWA) agency was established in Atlanta, Georgia, now known as…
In 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt publicly denounced germ warfare as an inhumane form of warfare. Privately, he approved…
In 1942, influenza A/B vaccine was introduced to the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board. The vaccine was effective against…
In 1942, the first intravenous chemotherapy treatment of a cancer patient was performed at Yale.
In 1942, Yale cancer research began when the first use of a cancer drug was administered to a…
In 1942, Dr. Jonas Salk arrived at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Techniques earned there…