On Sept. 22, 1944, the War Department General Order Number 76 officially redesignated Fort Lewis General Hospital as…
In 1944, the the American Chemical Society awarded the Priestley Medal to James B. Conant “to recognize distinguished…
On Jul. 1, 1944, the United States Congress passed the Public Health Service Act, which officially reorganized the…
On Jul. 1, 1944, the Public Health Service Act (PHS) was codified and established the quarantine authority of…
On May. 1, 1944, Paul B. Dunbar, Ph.D., becomes Commissioner of Food and Drugs. His tenure as commissioner…
In 1944, the use of dried plasma became vital to treating wounded solders in World War II.
In 1944, the use of cell cultures for virus growth was discovered. This allowed viruses to be cultured…
In 1944, Joseph Erlanger, native of San Francisco and graduate of the University of California (B.Sc.), was awarded…
In 1944, Robert Woodruff who succeeded Asa Candler as president of The Coca-Cola Company, offered to underwrite the…
In 1944, Norman Borlaug participated in the Rockefeller Foundation’s pioneering technical assistance program in Mexico, where he was…
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…
In 1944, Johnsonﾠ &ﾠ Johnson went public with a listing on the New York Stock Exchange.
In 1944, Dr. Philip Levine, the discoverer of the human rH factor, joins Ortho Research Laboratories, creating the…
In 1944, Hans Asperger, a Viennese pediatrician, described ‘autistic psychopathy.’ Decades later, his name will become a diagnosis:…
In 1944, DNA was found by Oswald T. Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty to be the basic…
On Sept. 4, 1943, Dr. Carl Voegtlin resigned as director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Dr. Voegtlin…
On Apr. 16, 1943, Albert Hofmann accidentally exposed himself while testing synthesized lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). Hofmann had…
In 1943, Harold W. Chalkley devised a method that now bears his name for the quantitative morphologic analysis…
In 1943, Margaret Pittman began work on the intracerebral challenge potency assay for pertussis vaccine. The standardization effected…
In 1943, The Detroit Institute for Cancer Research was incorporated with just $483 and 200 shares of General…
In 1943, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) established at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
In 1943, Mike Mansfield served Montana as Representative and Senator in the U.S. Congress for thiry-four years, and…
In 1943, penicillin first became mass-produced. Rediscovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928, penicillin was capable of attacking many…
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, Elizabeth Gambrell became the first women admitted to Emory’s School of Medicine.
In 1943, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory was formed to work on the Manhattan Project. Its research shfited…
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…