By the time a measles vaccine was developed in the 1960s, the disease had been around and documented for over a thousand years. One of the first cases was reported by a Persian doctor…
Huge strides were made in heart surgery during the 1960s. The first successful human-to-human heart transplant was performed on December 3rd, 1967. A team of South African surgeons, led by Dr. Christian Barnard, transplanted…
Perhaps you don’t remember leaving work early or foregoing a meal during your lunch break in order to run down and stand in line at the bank to make a deposit or get out…
Stephanie Kwolek, the daughter of two Polish immi-grants, was a chemist working for the DuPont corpo-ration in 1965 when she discovered a stronger-than-steel compound that would prove to be the strongest, stiffest fiber known….