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1970–1979

1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 Christina de Duve Carleton Gajdusek Rosalyn Yalow Hamilton Smith

1970 1970 1972 1973 1974 1975 1977 1978 1979 Sir Rodney Porter George Palande Howard Temin Allan Cormack

1970970 197171 1973973 197474 197575 197676 1977977 197878 1979979 Ulf con Euler Earl W. Sutherland, Jr. Baruch Blumberg Godfrey Hounsfi eld

1970 Establishment of the ILAE Commission on Antiepileptic Drugs 1971 Clonazepam launched into clinical practice 1972 First CAT scan on a patient with epilepsy 1972 First edition of Antiepileptic Drugs published 1973 Yaşargil performs the fi rst selective amygdalo–hippocampectomy 1973 ILAE and IBE joint meeting in Barcelona 1973 Denmark, Norway jand Portugal join the ILAE, which now has 23 branches 1973 Epilepsia moves publishers to Raven Press 1974 Letter of Intent signed to form Epilepsy International as a prelude to a merger between the IBE and ILAE

1975 Workshop held in Marseilles on CAT scanning in epilepsy 1975 Clobazam launched in Europe for the treatment of epilepsy 1975 Interictal behavioural disorder in epilepsy defi ned 1976 The fi rst IBE/ILAE International Symposium in Dublin 1977 Joint IBE and ILAE congress in Amsterdam – with 450 ILAE delegates 1977 Branches of the ILAE are formed in Canada, Mexico and the Dominican Republic 1977 First MRI scan in vivo in man (of a fi nger) carried out in Nottingham 1978 First of the Epilepsy International Symposia, in Vancouver, with some 1000 delegates 1978 First clinical MRI scans carried out 1978 First published reports of the use of PET scanning in epilepsy 1979 11th Epilepsy International Symposium in Florence 1979 DDR and Finland form chapters of ILAE

1970 Discovered that RNA can be converted into DNA by reverse transcriptase 1975 Monoclonal produced by César Milstein and George Köhler 1971 Structure of insulin described by Dorothy Hodgkin using crystallography 1976 B12 synthesised 1972 Histamine receptors discovered by James Black 1977 WHO announces that smallpox has been eradicated from the world 1973 First NMR image (last wild case described in Somalia) 1973 First recombinant DNA 1978 Louise Brown becomes the fi rst baby born by in vitro fertilisation 1975 Endorphins discovered 1979 NIH guidance on research on human subjects

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