Timeline History |
Medical History Timeline 1951 - 1960 |
Year | Medical Discovery / Inventions | medical articles / thesis |
Famous Births/Deaths | Medical Equipments | Medical Events | |||||
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1951 | Bessie Blount invented a device to help the disabled person eat. | |||||||||
1952 | Protein structure examined Jonas Salk invented polio vaccine |
Paul Zoll develops the first cardiac pacemaker to control irregular heartbeat. | ||||||||
1953 | Structure of DNA found | Gibbon performed the first human open heart operation in 1953. | ||||||||
1954 | Dr. Papanicolaou's comprehensive scientific treatise "Atlas of Exfoliative Cytology," was published. | Forrest Bird founded the Bird Products Corporation to market and develop his respirator devices. | Dr. Joseph E. Murray performs the first kidney transplant between identical twins. | |||||||
1955 | Jonas Salk develops the first polio. | Death of Egas Moniz (developed Lobotomy and brain artery angiography. ) Death of Sir Alexander Fleming (March 11)
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contraceptive pill invented by Gregor Pincus | |||||||
1956 | ||||||||||
1957 | Rachel Fuller Brown and Elizabeth Lee Hazen invented the worlds first useful antifungal antibiotic - nystatin. | Vance Packard publishes The Hidden Persuaders, criticizing advertising industry for psychological manipulation of consumers. | pacemaker invented by Clarence W. Lillehie and Earl Bakk Walter Grey Walter invents the brain EEG topography (toposcope) |
Dr. Willem Kolff and Dr. Tetsuzo Akutzu implant the first artificial heart in a dog. The animal survives 90 minutes. | ||||||
1958 | John Kenneth Galbraith publishes The Affluent Society, arguing that advertising encourages unhealthy materialism in the United States. | |||||||||
1959 | ||||||||||
1960 | First Patented Antibody Labeling Agent (May 17) Patent Number 2,937,186 for "Isothiocyanate Compounds and Means of Producing the Same Isothiocyanate Compounds" was issued to Joseph Burckhalter and Robert Seiwald. |
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