In 1906, after the San Francisco earthquake, Charles Goodall Lee established himself as the first Chinese American dentist…
In 1906, the Massachusetts Medical College of Harvard University relocated to its its current location in Boston. Today,…
In 1906, The J.E. Hanger Company was incorporated. James Edward Hanger was the first amputee of the American…
On Apr. 18, 1905, William Bateson suggested the term “genetics” (Greek genno, “to give birth”) to describe the…
In 1905, Marie Equi, one of the first women to become a physician in Oregon, established a general…
In 1905, the St. Louis Skin and Cancer Hospital was founded to provide free cancer care to the…
In 1905, the School of Dentistry was established at John A. Creighton Medical College with 113 students. The…
In 1905, the Creighton College of Pharmacy was established. The Medical College was founded in 1892. The medical…
In 1905, Bristol, Myers Company purchased land n New Brunswick, New Jersey, for establishment of an ether production…
In 1905, the Squibb sons sold the Bristol, Myers Company to Lowell M. Palmer and Theodore Weicker, and…
In 1905, James Hanger officially retired from the J.E. Hanger Company. Mr. Hanger was the first amputee of…
In 1905, Reid Hunt demonstrated the presence of thyroid hormone in the blood and introduced the acetonitril test…
In 1905, Dr. Milton J. Rosenau conducted research resulting in the establishment of the official unit for the…
In 1905, Swedish pediatrician Dr. Ivar Wickman recognized the contagious nature of polio and the importance of abortive…
In 1905, Dr. Faith Sai So Leong became the first Chinese American woman to graduate from a dental…
In 1905, the Arkansas Industrial University (University of Arkansas) college of agriculture was created. Classes began at the…
In 1905, Wesley Memorial Hospital, now known as Emory University, opened in an Atlanta ante-bellum home, and a…
In 1905, the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy began dispensing medications for use in the University of…
In 1905, Mrs. A. Elliot left money in her will to build a university hospital in memory of…
Caricature of Pierre and Marie Curie. Caption read “Radium.” Published in Vanity Fair, December 22, 1904. In 1903,…
On Dec. 6, 1904, the U.S. Supreme Court argued the case requiring a compulsory vaccination law. The Court…
In 1904, developmental biologist Thomas Hunt Morgan was appointed professor of experimental zoology at Columbia University in New…
In 1904, Fox Chase Cancer Center was founded by the union of American Oncologic Hospital and the Institute…
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In 1904, Charles Van Hise, president of the University of Wisconsin, declared that ‘the beneficent influence of the…
In 1903, the nation’s first cooperative agricultural extension program was launched when Iowa State professor Perry Holden, a…
In 1903, the New York City Department of Health opened a quarantine facility at Riverside Hospital on North…
In 1903, Memorial Hospital opened as a private hospital Richmond, Va., but was used by the faculty at…
In 1903, the Nobel Prize in Physics was divided, one half awarded to Antoine Henri Becquerel “in recognition…
In 1903, radium was found effective in the treatment of tumors which Marie and Pierre Curie had isolated,…
In 1903, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) was founded. The current organization was formed in…