The NIH Almanac - Historical Data
Photo GalleryRecent Photos from the Institutes:Presidential ImagesPresident Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the new NIH campus
in Bethesda on October 31, 1940. This event was held to celebrate
NIH's historic move from one building in Washington, D.C. to
its new campus setting in Maryland on 45 acres of land donated
by Luke and Helen Wilson.
On June 22, 1951, President Harry S Truman applied the first
trowel of mortar to the NIH Clinical Center cornerstone. To symbolize
advances in clinical medicine at the time, the cornerstone included
samples of therapeutic aids, drugs, and techniques and devices
to represent diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease.
President Lyndon B. Johnson stepping off helicopter onto the
lawn of the NIH Clinical Center, August 9, 1965. He is being
greeted by PHS Surgeon General William H. Stewart, NIH Director
Dr. James Shannon, and Dr. Jack Masur, Clinical Center Director.
President Johnson with PHS Surgeon General William H. Stewart
and NIH Director Dr. James Shannon arrived at the NIH on August
9, 1965, to sign into law an extension of the Research Facilities
Construction Program. In his remarks, President Johnson noted
that "Here on this quiet battleground our Nation today leads
a worldwide war on disease."
Dr. Theodore Cooper, President Gerald Ford, and Dr. Donald S.
Fredrickson listening to HEW Secretary Casper Weinberger speak
at the July 1, 1975, swearing in ceremonies of Dr. Cooper as
the HEW Assistant Secretary for Health, and Dr. Fredrickson as
Director of the NIH.
President Gerald Ford speaking at the July 1, 1975, ceremony
swearing in Dr. Donald S. Fredrickson as NIH Director. In his
speech, President Ford says of the NIH "Through your accomplishments,
NIH has become a symbol of hope, not just for the patients who
are here in this or the other buildings, but all people, everywhere."
President Gerald Ford observes Dr. Donald S. Fredrickson taking
his oath of office as Director of the National Institutes of
Health on July 1, 1975. HEW Secretary Casper Weinberger administers
the oath as Mrs. Fredrickson holds the family Bible.
President Gerald Ford shakes hands with NIH staff, patients,
and guests at the Clinical Center. He was on hand to observe
the swearing in of Dr. Donald S. Fredrickson as the Director
of the NIH, July 1, 1975.
First Lady Rosalyn Carter, and Mrs. James Callaghan, wife of
the British Prime Minister, are shown speaking with a patient
in the Clinical Center's Laminar Flow Room facilities. Mrs. Carter
and Mrs. Callaghan visited the Clinical Center on March 11, 1977.
On March 11, 1977, First Lady Rosalyn Carter, and Mrs. James
Callaghan, wife of the British Prime Minister, visited the NIH
campus and met with NIH Director Dr. Donald S. Fredrickson for
a tour of the Clinical Center.
On July 23, 1987 President Ronald Reagan visited the NIH Clinical
Center to announce his 13-member Commission on the Human Immunodeficiency
Virus Epidemic. HHS Secretary Otis R. Bowen and President Ronald
Reagan listen as NIH Director James B. Wyngaarden briefed the
president on the NIH's efforts in fighting AIDS.
HHS Secretary Otis R. Bowen and NIH Director James B. Wyngaarden
greet President Ronald Reagan during his July 23, 1987 visit
to the NIH Clinical Center. President Reagan visited the NIH
to announce his 13-member Commission on the Human Immunodeficiency
Virus Epidemic.
President Ronald Reagan, HHS Secretary Otis R. Bowen, Dr. James
B. Wyngaarden and members of the Commission on the Human Immunodeficiency
Virus Epidemic. In his remarks, the president said, "I hope
the commission will help us all put aside our suspicions and
work together with common sense against this threat."
President Bill Clinton speaking with HHS Secretary Donna Shalala
and NIH Director Dr. Harold Varmus after the cornerstone dedication
ceremony for the Dale and Betty Bumpers Vaccine Research Center
on June 9, 1999.
Mrs. Betty Bumpers, President Bill Clinton, and Sen. Dale Bumpers
during the cornerstone dedication ceremony for the Dale and Betty
Bumpers Vaccine Research Center on June 9, 1999. In his speech,
President Clinton praised the Bumpers by saying "It is entirely
fitting that today we dedicate this state-of-the-art facility
to them. They are two great Americans."
On June 9, 1999, HHS Secretary Donna Shalala, President Bill
Clinton, Arkansas Sen. Dale Bumpers, and Mrs. Betty Bumpers unveil
the cornerstone to the Dale and Betty Bumpers Vaccine Research
Center. President Clinton called the NIH "one of America's
great citadels of hope, not only for our people, but also for
the world."
President George W. Bush tours the Vaccine Research Center on
February 2, 2003. He is accompanied by (from left) NIAID Director
Anthony Fauci, NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, HHS Secretary
Tommy Thompson, and Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security,
Tom Ridge.
President George W. Bush delivers an address on Project BioShield
to a full audience at Natcher Auditorium during his visit to
NIH on February 3, 2003.
President George W. Bush visits NIH on May 12, 2004 and participates
in a panel discussion about reading education and development.
Touting his No Child Left Behind legislation and its Reading
First initiative, President Bush talks with other panel members,
including G. Reid Lyon (l) of NICHD and Alabama kindergarten
teacher Cynthia Henderson (r).
President George W. Bush visited NIH on November 1, 2005 to
announce the government's pandemic influenza preparations and
response. At a Natcher Bldg. address of just under half an hour,
he outlined a $7.1 billion plan to meet the threat of avian flu.
Bush credited NIH for more than a century of work "at the forefront
of this country's efforts to prevent, detect and treat disease,
and I appreciate the good work you're doing here. This is an
important facility, an important complex, and the people who
work here are really important to the security of this nation."
President George W. Bush visits NIH on January 26, 2005 to hold
a 40-minute town hall meeting in Masur auditorium called strengthening
health care. Greeting him in the lobby of the Clinical Research
Center is: NIH director Dr. Elias Zerhouni joined by NCI director
Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach (l) and Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich,
Jr.
On January 17, 2007, President George W. Bush makes his fifth
visit to the NIH campus during his presidency. In his tour of
a cancer research laboratory and a roundtable discussion, the
president learned about the Cancer Genome Atlas project and other
NIH-funded research efforts.
Campus PhotosBuilding 1, the "Shannon Building," serves as NIH
headquarters in the heart of the campus in Bethesda, Maryland.
Building 10, the "Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center," has
served as the nation's clinical research hospital since 1953.
The Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center opened in 2005.
The facility houses inpatient units, day hospitals, and research
labs and connects to the original Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical
Center. Together, the Magnuson and Hatfield buildings form the
NIH Clinical Center. The Clinical Center provides patient care
and the environment clinical researchers need to advance clinical
science. It was named in honor of Senator Mark O. Hatfield of
Oregon, who supported medical research throughout his congressional
career.
The Children's Inn at NIH provides pediatric patients and their
families a place to stay during treatment at the Clinical Center.
The Edmond J. Safra Family Lodge at NIH is the temporary residence
for families and loved ones of adult patients receiving care
at the Clinical Center.
Building 16, the "Lawton Chiles International House," is
a locus for international activities supported by NIH and the
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The
C.W. Bill Young Center (Building 33) is a new laboratory
complex constructed for the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to expand its research programs
for developing new and improved diagnostics, vaccines, and
treatments for emerging diseases caused by infectious agents
that may occur naturally or be deliberately released into civilian
populations.
Buildings 38 (and 38A—shown in the background) house the
National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest collection
of medical literature, and the Lister Hill National Center for
Biomedical Communications, the research component of the NLM.
Building 40, the "Dale and Betty Bumpers Vaccine Research
Center," was established to facilitate research in vaccine
development.
Building 45, the "William H. Natcher Building," is
the gateway to the NIH campus. It houses a 1,000-seat auditorium,
nine conference rooms, a spacious cafeteria, and underground
parking for visitors.
Building 50, "The Louis Stokes Laboratories," provides
250,000 GSF of state-of-the-art laboratory, office and conference
facilities for scientists from nine NIH Institutes.
This view of the NIH campus looks north past the Natcher Building
(right) to the Stokes Labs (center) and beyond to the Clinical
Center (upper left). Building 31, the "Claude D. Pepper
Building," (upper right) provides office space for most
Institute directors and their immediate staff.
This view of the NIH campus looks south beyond the Stokes Labs
and Natcher Building (center) to the reflective façade
of the National Library of Medicine (upper right).
Historical Photos of ScientistsThe NIH began in 1887 as a one-room Hygienic Laboratory in this
Marine Hospital on Staten Island, New York. The Hygienic Laboratory
was located here until 1891, when it was moved to Washington,
D.C.
This is a photograph of a PHS research laboratory, circa 1899.
The staff is shown at workstations with microscopes and laboratory
glassware.
In 1910, U.S. Public Health Service workers prepared poisons
to be used for the extermination of plague-carrying rats.
In 1910, researchers worked at a U.S. Public Health Service
laboratory equipped with a bunsen burner, microscope, and petri
dishes.
In 1916, Dr. Ida A. Bengston became the first woman on the professional
staff at the U.S. Public Health Service Hygienic Laboratory.
Dr. Bengston worked on ways of developing vaccines for spotted
fever.
In 1929, field laboratory technicians for the Rocky Mountain
Laboratory collected research specimens from the north side of
Blodgett canyon, Montana.
A 1937 NIH laboratory technician surrounded by tools of the
trade; a rack of cotton-stoppered test tubes, a microscope and
various glass jars.
In 1939, laboratory technicians performed tick research at a
field laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. The laboratory was equipped
with a refrigerator, an autoclave, and a wood-burning stove.
In 1946, researchers work at a field laboratory set up in the
basement of the Kew Gardens apartments in New York City.
In 1953, NIH scientists were seeking the cause of the hypersensitivity
that develops during a 10-21 day lapse after infection before
the onset of rheumatic fever or nephritis.
In 1954, NIH researchers were studying weight and blood changes
in rats with folic acid deficiency.
In 1975, NIH’s central computer facility housed computers
to aid in the collection, analysis and display of data from laboratory
instruments, such as this mass spectrometer.
Dr. Martin Rodbell, former scientific director of NIEHS, won
the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Photo courtesy
of Andrew M. Rodbell.
Former NIEHS Director Kenneth Olden (l) with senior members
of the NIEHS component of the team that identified the first
breast cancer susceptibility gene, BRCA1. Also pictured (left
to right) are Dr. J. Carl Barrett, Dr. Roger W. Wiseman, and
Dr. Andrew Futreal. Photo by Steven R. McCaw.
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