Edwin Cohn developed cold ethanol fractionation
In 1940, Edwin Cohn, a professor of biological chemistry at Harvard Medical School, developed cold ethanol fractionation, the…
In 1940, Edwin Cohn, a professor of biological chemistry at Harvard Medical School, developed cold ethanol fractionation, the…
In 1940, Charles R. Drew, MD, an African American surgeon and Howard University researcher, began an early blood…
In 1940, American Oswald Avery precipitates a pure sample of what he calls the transforming factor; he has…
In 1940, Wendell Johnson at the University of Iowa pioneers the fields of speech pathology and audiology. Throughout…
In 1940, Howard Florey, Ernst Chain and others in England discover how to purify and preserve penicillin. The…
On Sept. 28, 1940, Dr. Austin T. Moore, an American surgeon at Johns Hopkins hospital, and Harold Ray…
In 1940, Nikolai Vavilov, perhaps the leading plant geneticist in the world, was arrested while on a collecting…
In 1940, Thomas Francis, Jr, MD isolated the influenza B virus from a child in 1940. Francis helped…
In 1940, Squibb obtained cultures of penicillium notatum from the U.K. and developed deep tank fermentation processes for…
In 1940, the McArdle Memorial Laboratory was founded in Madison. McArdle Lab was one of the first basic…
In 1940, Edard Abraham and Ernst Chain reported that an E. coli strain was able to inactivate penicillin…
In 1940, biochemist and bacteriologist Ruby Hirose was recognized by the American Chemical Society for accomplishments in chemistry….
On Jul. 4, 1939, baseball legend Lou Gehrig delivered the famous speech bidding farewell to the ballpark and…
On Jul. 1, 1939, Storrs Agricultural School became the University of Connecticut. Many in the University community believed…
In 1939, Rene Dubos isolated gramicidin, an antibiotic, from a common soil microbe. His discovery helps cure a…
In 1939, Louis Schwartz and H. R. Foerster described industrial dermatitis and melanosis due to photosensitization.
In 1939, Hugh G. Grady and Harold L. Stewart first identified the type II cell of the pulmonary…
In 1939, Margaret Pittman showed that sulfapyradine was effective against nontype-specific Haemophilus influenzae. Pittman discovered that there are…
In 1939, the first large-scale deliberate release of bacteria into the environment takes place when Bp is sprayed…
In 1939, the First Food Standards were issued (canned tomatoes, tomato puree, and tomato paste). The standards looked…
In 1939, University of Iowa researcher W.D. “Shorty” Paul developed the concept for buffered aspirin. In 1917, the…
In 1939, Lewis L. Coriell published a paper on an aspect of science he would revolutionize: His pioneering…
In 1939, Elizabeth Kenny, or Sister Kenny, as nurses were called in Australia, came to the U.S. in…
In 1939, the National Malaria Society was founded. In 1951, the criteria for eradication as put forth by…
In 1939, embryologist E.E. Just published The Biology of the Cell Surface, and pioneered ideas about the importance…
On Dec. 23, 1938, Herald R. Cox published: Use of Yolk Sac of Developing Chick Embryo as Medium…
On Nov. 16, 1938, Albert Hofmann at Sandoz synthesized lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). LSD-25, as originally known when…
On Nov. 11, 1938, Mary Mallon, also known as Typhoid Mary and the first person in the U.S.,…
On Nov. 5, 1938, the British Columbia Cancer Institute, BC Cancer’s first cancer treatment centre officially opened in…
On Oct. 11, 1938, the Squibb Biological Laboratories, New Brunswick, New Jersey, established a new laboratory for the…