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Nobel Foundation, ABO blood group system, Nobel Foundation, 1930s - first photo, August 25 2006 - second photo

The ABO blood group system is the most important blood type system (or blood group system) in human blood transfusion. It is widely credited to have…

Tags: ABO Blood Group System, Blood, Blood Type, Karl Landsteiner, Red Blood Cells, Transfusion Medicine

Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklyn as Scientist and Innovator, Library of Congress, 1776 - first photo, 1744 - second photo

Benjamin Franklin is considered an American patriot and founding father, but his careers and influence took him much further. As a "man of science"…

Tags: Benjamin Franklin, Electricity, Fireplace, Glasses, Inventions, Science

Photographer Arthur Rothstein 1915-1985, Botanist and Inventor George Washington Carver 1864-1943, Library of Congress, 1942

American Botanist and Inventor. Dr. George Washington Carver was born in Diamond Grove, Missouri, around 1864. He is one of the United States' most…

Tags: African-Americans, Agriculturel, Alabama, Botany, Farming, George Washington Carver, Peanuts, Scientists

Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Carl L. Alsberg, UC Berkeley, Unknown

Carl L. Alsberg (April 2, 1877 October 31, 1940) was an American chemist who served as Commissioner of Food and Drugs from 1912 to 1921. After…

Tags: Adulteration, Carl Alsberg, Chemistry, Coca-Cola, FDA, Monsanto, Safety

Caroline Miles, Eileen Collins

On February 4th, 1995 at 12:22 a.m, Eileen Collins was about to be launched into space. With the takeoff of the STS-63 space shuttle, Collins would…

Tags: Air Force, Eileen Collins, NASA, Shuttle Pilot, Space, USAA

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Examining New Drug Applications, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, February 27 2012

Medical Officer Alexander Fleming, M. D., examines a portion of a 240-volume new drug application around the late 1980s. Applications grew…

Tags: Alexander Fleming, Drug Amendments, Drug Application, FDA, Safety

Carl Mydans, Farm Security Administration - the New Deal, Library of Congress, 1935

Farm Security Administration (FSA) was an effort during the Great Depression to combat American rural poverty. The FSA stressed "rural rehabilitation"…

Tags: Anti-Poverty, Farm Security Administration, FDR, FSA, Great Depression, Rural Poverty

US FDA, FDA History - Sure Cure Cartoon, US FDA, Unknown

This political cartoon pays homage to Bureau of Chemistry Chief Chemist Harvey Wiley who led the fight to institute a federal law to prohibit…

Tags: Cartoon, FDA, Harvey Wiley, Roosevelt

Michael J. Ermarth, FDA Lab 3000, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, February 5 2009

Feb. 5, 2009; Irvine, CA An FDA microbiologist tests seafood samples for the presence of Salmonella.

Tags: FDA, Food Safety, Salmonella, Science, Seafood, Testing

Columbia University, Finding a Cure for Huntington's Disease, Columbia University, None

For her groundbreaking work in the scientific and public arenas towards finding a cure for Huntington's disease and for increasing awareness of all…

Tags: Diseases, Genetics, Huntington's Disease, Nancy Wexler, Science

U.S. Government, Great Seal of the United States, U.S. Government, Basic design - 1782

The United States Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997 (FDAMA) amended the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. This act is related…

Tags: Drugs, FDA, Food, Modernization Act, Public Health

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Harvey Wiley, Chief Chemist of the Department of Agriculture's Division of Chemistry, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 1883

Harvey Wiley, Chief Chemist of the Department of Agricultures Division of Chemistry (third from the right) with his staff, not long after he joined…

Tags: Department of Agriculture, FDA, Food and Drugs Act, Harvey Wiley, Science

Douglas A. Lockard, Herbert Boyer, Science History Institute, June 9 2005

Herbert Wayne "Herb" Boyer (born July 10, 1936) is a researcher and entrepreneur in biotechnology. Along with Stanley N. Cohen and Paul Berg he…

Tags: Bacteria, Biotech, Genetic Engineering, Herbert Boyer, Science

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Inspecting a Candy Factory, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 1911

John Earnshaw, an early food and drug inspector working in and around Baltimore, inspects a clean and sanitary candy factory around 1911/12. Candy in…

Tags: Candy, FDA, Inspection, Science, Women, Workers

Albert Gustaf Aristedes Edelfelt, Louis Pasteur, Discoverer of Lifesaving Vaccines, Albert Gustaf Aristedes Edelfelt, 1885

Louis Pasteur (December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895) was a French His discoveries reduced mortality from puerperal fever, and he created the first…

Tags: Anthrax, Diseases, Germ Theory, Louis Pasteur, Puerperal Fever, Rabies, Vaccines

Department of Agriculture. Office of the Secretary. Office of Information, Main Building of the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Circa 1895

The Department of Agriculture Building was the original headquarters of the United States Department of Agriculture located on the National Mall…

Tags: Agriculture, Architecture, Department of Agriculture, Historic, Washington D.C.

Pete J. Souza, Obama signs FSMA into Law, Executive Office of the President of the United States, January 4 2011

Obama signs FSMA into Law. The law grants the FDA a number of new powers, including mandatory recall authority, which the agency has sought for many…

Tags: Food Safety, FSMA, Law, Obama, Science

Imperial War Museum, Penicillin, Imperial War Museum, Between 1939 and 1945 - first photo, July 20 2009 - second photo

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Tags: Antibiotics, Diseases, Penicillin, Science, Syphilis, World War II

DCPL Commons, Portrait of Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, DCPL Commons, Circa 1900

Harvey Washington Wiley (October 30, 1844, Kent, Indiana - June 30, 1930, Washington, D.C.) was a noted chemist involved with the passage of the…

Tags: Agriculture, Chemistry, Federal, Food Safety, Harvey Wiley

Sam Ogden, Rudolf Jaenisch, Whitehead Institute, June 2003

Rudolf Jaenisch (born 22 April 1942) is a Professor of Biology at MIT and a founding member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. He is…

Tags: Biology, Cancer, Diseases, Genetic Engineering, Rudolf Jaenisch, Science, Transgenic Science

Horst Schreck, Veterinary Corp U.S. Army, Library of Congress, 1919

The Veterinary Corps, U.S. Army, taught men care and treatment of sick animals; horse judging and soundness; horseshoeing; riding; driving; meat and…

Tags: Animals, Horse Riding, Horses, U.S. Army, Veterinary Corps