In 1944, the University of Oklahoma Medical School Alumni Association studied possibility of establishing a research facility in…
In 1944, the first protein separation using electrophoresis is performed by Dr. Maud Menten, one of the first…
In 1944, Canadian Premier Tommy Douglas, seeing the high cancer death rate in Saskatchewan, implemented free cancer treatment…
In 1944, the Baruch Center of Physical Medicine at the Medical College of Virginia was organized with a…
On Sept. 4, 1943, Dr. Carl Voegtlin resigned as director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Dr. Voegtlin…
On Aug. 1, 1943, Roscoe Roy Spencer became the second director of the National Cancer Institute, when Voegtlin…
On Apr. 16, 1943, Albert Hofmann tested synthesized lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) on himself. LSD-25, as originally known…
In 1943, Glenn H. Algire, using the transparent-chamber technique, demonstrated a method for making microscopic studies in vivo…
In 1943, Margaret Pittman began work on the intracerebral challenge potency assay for pertussis vaccine. The standardization effected…
In 1943, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) established at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
In 1943, penicillin first became mass-produced. Rediscovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928, penicillin was capable of attacking many…
In 1943, Elizabeth Gambrell became the first women admitted to Emory’s School of Medicine.
In 1943, The Rockefeller Foundation, in collaboration with the Mexican government, initiates the Mexican Agricultural Program – the…
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 founded. Dr. Rollin H. Stevens was appointed the instituteï¾’s…
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 Laboratoriesï¾—a Syracuse, New York, manufacturer of acidophilus milkï¾—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…
Norman E. Borlaug received his Ph.D. in plant pathology from the University of Minnesota. Norman E. Borlaug graduated…
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…