On Aug. 26, 1952, Founders Day marks the date that Ernest Lawrence received permission to open up a…
In 1952, Stanford Medicine researchers discovered a new class of immune response genes, suggesting for the first time…
In 1952, Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation, 501(c)3 independent non-profit biomedical research organization, was founded.
On Apr. 9, 1951, world boxing champion Sugar Ray Robinson defended his crown in Oklahoma City by knocking…
On Feb. 8, 1951, Henrietta Lacks, a tobacco farmer from Virginia died from cervical cancer, and a scientist…
From 1951 to 1976, the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) treated some of the state’s sickest children, most…
On Dec. 17, 1950, five thousand Oklahomans attended an Open House for a newly dedicated OMRF research building….
On May 27, 1950, Washington University physician Evarts A. Graham, MD, and medical student Ernst Wynder published a…
On Nov. 2, 1949, Sandia Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Electric, took over management of Sandia…
On Oct. 9, 1949, the University of Washington’s Health Sciences Building was dedicated on the university’s Seattle campus….
In Jul. 1943, Construction of the original Madigan General Hospital began during the height of World War II…
On Sept. 21, 1948, a 28-year-old woman at Saint Marys Hospital (Mayo Clinic) in Rochester, MN received the…
In 1947, The first attempt at coordinating cancer at University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) was a…
On Mar. 5, 1947, ground was broken for the new University of Washington’s Health Sciences Building. The new…
In 1947, Governor Roy J. Turner launched a fund drive that spanned all 77 of Oklahoma’s counties. In…
On Aug. 28, 1946, Oklahoma’s Secretary of State Frank C. Carter granted the charter of the Oklahoma Medical…
On Aug. 3, 1946, the articles of incorporation were signed by Governor Roy J. Turner that established the…
Sandia began in 1945 as Z Division, the ordnance design, testing, and assembly arm of Los Alamos National…
On Aug. 8, 1945, the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (SKI) was established. A gift of $4 million…
On Sept. 22, 1944, the War Department General Order Number 76 officially redesignated Fort Lewis General Hospital as…
In 1942, the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College’s first Ph.D. was awarded to Nathan Sugarman in chemistry. In…
On Dec. 16, 1941, the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research (SFBR), San Antonio’s first biomedical research organization, was…
On Feb. 4, 1941, the Red Cross began a National Blood Donor Service to collect blood for the…
In 1941, the Priestley Medal was awarded to Thomas Midgley by the American Chemical Society “to recognize distinguished…
In 1941, Dr. Edward J. Baldes at the Mayo Clinic constructs a human centrifuge to simulate blackout, a…
In 1932, the Tumor Institute of the Swedish Hospital opened its doors. Children’s Orthopedic Hospital Association, later known…
In 1931, The Cook County School of Nursing opened in the former Illinois Training School for Nurses, now…
Founded in 1930, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution was formed as part of the Marine Biological Laboratory and…
In 1930, Ernest Everett Just, an African American biologist, became the first American to be invited to the…
In 1930, the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR) at Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM) was established, funded…