1970s in medicine

none This is a list of events associated with medicine in the 1970s. 1970 October The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is jointly awarded to Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler and Julius Axelrod "for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanisms for their storage, release and inactivation".Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1970 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1970/press-release/ 2026-01-03 NobelPrize.org en-US 1971 Maurice Hilleman develops the MMR vaccine, combining existing vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella into one.History of measles vaccination https://www.who.int/news-room/spotlight/history-of-vaccination/history-of-measles-vaccination 2026-01-03 www.who.int en October The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to Earl W. Sutherland Jr. "for his discoveries concerning the mechanisms of the action of hormones".Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1971 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1971/press-release/ 2026-01-03 NobelPrize.org en-US 1972 1972 Yugoslav smallpox outbreak London flu October The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is jointly awarded to Gerald Maurice Edelman and Rodney Robert Porter "for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies".Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1972 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1972/press-release/ 2026-01-03 NobelPrize.org en-US 1973 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is jointly awarded to Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz and Nikolaas Tinbergen "for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns".Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1973 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1973/press-release/ 2026-01-03 NobelPrize.org en-US 1974 1974 smallpox epidemic in India October The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is jointly awarded to Albert Claude, Christian de Duve and George E. Palade "for their discoveries concerning the structural and functional organization of the cell".Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1974 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1974/press-release/ 2026-01-02 NobelPrize.org en-US 1975 Japan Air Lines food poisoning incident October The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is jointly awarded to David Baltimore, Renato Dulbecco and Howard Temin "for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell".Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1975 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1975/press-release/ 2026-01-02 NobelPrize.org en-US 1976 1976 swine flu outbreak 1976 Philadelphia Legionnaires' disease outbreak 1976 Zaire Ebola virus outbreak October 14: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is jointly awarded to Baruch Samuel Blumberg and D. Carleton Gajdusek "for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases".Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1976 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1976/press-release/ 2026-01-02 NobelPrize.org en-US 1977 1977 Russian flu October The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is divided in half between Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally "for their discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain" with the other half going to Rosalyn Yalow "for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptid hormones."Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1977 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1977/press-release/ 2026-01-02 NobelPrize.org en-US 1978 1978 smallpox outbreak in the United Kingdom September 11: Janet Parker, the last confirmed victim of smallpox, dies. She was a British medical photographer who worked at the anatomy department at Birmingham Medical School where she was accidentally exposed to smallpox from a research lab.2018-08-10 How smallpox claimed its final victim https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-45101091 2026-01-05 en-GB October The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is jointly awarded to Werner Arber, Daniel Nathans and Hamilton O. Smith "for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics".Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1978 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1978/press-release/ 2026-01-02 NobelPrize.org en-US 1979 Sverdlovsk anthrax leak Leukotrienes are identified and named by Bengt I. Samuelsson.Serhan Charles N. October 2006 The discovery and characterization of the leukotrienes https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(06)01769-6/fulltext The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 118 4 972-976 October 11: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is jointly awarded to Allan M. Cormack and Godfrey Hounsfield "for the development of computer assisted tomography".Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1979 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1979/press-release/ 2026-01-02 NobelPrize.org en-US See also 1980s in medicine Timeline of medicine and medical technology References Category: 1970s in medicine Category: 1970s in science Category: Medicine timelines