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OFFICE OF HISTORY
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH

The Office of History, National Institutes of Health exists to advance historical understanding of biomedical research within the NIH and the world. Through preserving records of significant NIH achievements, innovative exhibits, educational programs, and training researchers from multiple disciplines, the Office of History explores the past to enhance present understanding of the health sciences and the NIH.

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ERNZT LEITZ MICROSCOPE, ONE OF SEVERAL MICROSCOPES LOCATED IN THE STETTEN MUSEUM COLLECTION

A TORSION BALANCE

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION AND WELFARE FLAG THAT THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH FLEW FROM 1953 TO 1980

DR. ALICE C. EVANS AT THE HYGIENIC LABORATORY, CA. 1930s. EVANS CONFIRMED THAT THE SOURCE OF MOST HUMAN BRUCELLOSIS CASES WAS THE MILK FROM COWS INFECTED WITH BACILLUS ABORTUS

THE CLINICAL CENTER (BUILDING 10) WAS CONSTRUCTED IN 1953 AS A RESEARCH HOSPITAL COMBINING LABORATORY RESEARCH AND PATIENT CARE, CA 1984

DR. JULIUS AXELROD, NOBEL LAUREATE, IN HIS LABORATORY AT THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, CA 1970s

AERIAL VIEW OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH CAMPUS IN THE EARLY 1950s SHORTLY AFTER THE COMPLETION OF BUILDING 10, THE CLINICAL CENTER

DR. GARY GIBBONS AND LABORATORY PERSONNEL, 2004

DR. HAROLD VARMUS, DIRECTOR OF THE NIH FROM 1993-1999, CURRENT DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE AND RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR WORK ON ONCOGENES

BUILDING 16, KNOWN AS THE “STONE HOUSE” ON THE NIH CAMPUS

DR. CHARLES WARDELL STILES JOINED THE U.S. PUBLIC HEALTH AND MARINE HOSPITAL SERVICE IN 1902 AS THE FIRST DIRECTOR OF THE HYGIENIC LABORATORY’S DIVISION OF ZOOLOGY

BROAD-SPECTRUM ANTIBIOTICS USED FOR ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER, CA 1950s

AERIAL VIEW OF THE NIH CAMPUS, CA 2004

EARLY IMAGES OF DESKTOP COMPUTER USE AT THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH

EARLY PHOTOGRAPH OF THE HYGIENIC LABORATORY, CA 1900

LABORATORY TECHNICIAN, CA 1970

ROYAL MANUAL TYPEWRITER, WIDELY USED AT THE NIH UNTIL COMPUTERS WERE INTRODUCED IN THE 1980s

MICROMANIPULATORS ARE MECHANICAL DEVICES FOR TRANSLATING GROSS MOVEMENTS OF THE HANDS INTO EXTREMELY FINE MOVEMENTS OF SMALL INSTRUMENTS. FROM THE STETTEN MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE ON THE CAMPUS OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, WAS DEDICATED DECEMBER 14, 1961

DR. MARSHALL W. NIRENBERG, THE FIRST FEDERAL EMPLOYEE TO RECEIVE A NOBEL PRIZE (PHYSIOLOGY OF MEDICINE, 1968) SHOWN IN HIS LABORATORY MEASURING THE AMOUNT OF FLUID IN A PIPETTE

JUNE 22, 1951, PRESIDENT HARRY S. TRUMAN LAID THE CORNERSTONE FOR THE NIH CLINICAL CENTER. LEFT TO RIGHT, NIH DIRECTOR, WILLIAM H. SEBRELL, JR., FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY ADMINISTRATOR, OSCAR EWING, CONTRACTOR JOHN MCSHAIN AND THE SURGEON GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES, LEONARD A. SCHEELE