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1959
1970s

1969

Arthur Kornberg, a 1941 graduate of the
School, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Richard Burton leads a team of
Medicine, for his groundbreaking test- orthopedists that developed a
tube synthesis of DNA. breakthrough surgery for patients
with a common type of arthritis of
Ground is broken for the new the thumb. The operation, known
1955 Strong Memorial Hospital. internationally as the “Burton
procedure,” is recognized as the gold
Donald G. Anderson is standard therapy for this condition.
appointed dean.

1950 1960 1970

Frank E. Young is
appointed dean.
1979

James Lowell Orbison
is appointed dean.
1966

Medical Center researchers
were first to administer lung
George Engel John Romano
surfactant to premature infants,
The School transforms medical education to train physicians in Raymond Gramiak publishes the dramatically improving their
treating the “whole” patient through the “biopsychosocial” model first study using ultrasound with survival rates. Surfactants are
created by George Engel and John Romano. an injected contrast agent to now used around the world.
1983
1940s
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY
map the anatomy of the beating
heart leading directly to the birth
of modern endocardiography.
1968