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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