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On December 9, 1952, Thurgood Marshall stood before the nine justices of the United States Supreme Court to argue Brown v. Board of Education of...
In 1969, malaria was killing thousands of soldiers along the Vietnam border, and modern medicine had no answer. The Chinese government tapped a thirty-nine-year-old researcher...
In Topeka, Kansas, a young girl named Linda Brown walked past Sumner Elementary School each morning — just seven blocks from her home — then...
In 1969, as malaria ravaged soldiers across Southeast Asia, Chinese chemist Tu Youyou was tasked with finding a cure. She and her team at the...
In 1952, at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, Dr. Virginia Apgar recognized a troubling pattern. In delivery rooms across America,...
In 1952, at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, anesthesiologist Virginia Apgar noticed something troubling: doctors had no standard method to...
On December 9, 1952, Thurgood Marshall stood before the nine justices of the United States Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., and spoke on behalf of...
In 1969, malaria was killing thousands of soldiers across Southeast Asia, and every modern drug was failing. The Chinese government turned to a quiet, determined...
In 1952, most delivery rooms treated newborns as an afterthought. Doctors focused on the mother while nurses whisked babies aside, assessing their health with little...