In 1913, the first known article on cancer’s warning signs was published in the popular women’s magazine (Ladies’…
On Nov. 7, 1911, Marie Curie’s birthday (born 1867), she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry “in…
On Aug. 31, 1909, George W. McCoy published a preliminary report in “The Journal of Medical Research” that…
In 1905, the St. Louis Skin and Cancer Hospital was founded to provide free cancer care to the…
Caricature of Pierre and Marie Curie. Caption read “Radium.” Published in Vanity Fair, Dec. 22, 1904. In 1903,…
In 1903, the Nobel Prize in Physics was divided, one half awarded to Antoine Henri Becquerel “in recognition…
On Nov. 27, 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris. He specified…
In 1882, William Halsted performed the surgery that bears his name, and the modern era in the surgical…
In 1872, the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital was founded as the first hospital in America devoted…
On Sept. 20, 1848, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) was founded which marked the…
In 470, Atossa, daughter of Cyrius the Great became the first women in recorded history to be diagnosed…
The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, dated to 3,000-2,500 B.C., and possibly attributable to Imhotep, the Egyptian physician-architect, provided…