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A production plant was established at the CSL facilities in Parkville, Victoria, and the first Australian-made penicillin began reaching the troops in New Guinea in December 1943. By 1944, CSL was producing 400 million Oxford units per week, and there was sufficient penicillin production to allocate some for civilian use.
He called this juice "penicillin", explaining the reason as "to avoid the repetition of the rather cumbersome phrase 'Mould broth filtrate'." [12] He invented the name on 7 March 1929. [5] In his Nobel lecture he gave a further explanation, saying: I have been frequently asked why I invented the name "Penicillin".
The term "penicillin" is defined as the natural product of Penicillium mould with antimicrobial activity. [8] It was coined by Alexander Fleming on 7 March 1929 when he discovered the antibacterial property of Penicillium rubens. [9]
"It was an accident" is never a phrase that you want to hear in the laboratory -- well, almost never. After all, taking an experimental drug from the fume hood of a chemistry lab all the way to ...
Her first visit to China was in 1959. Over the next quarter century, she travelled there seven more times, the last visit a year before her death. [60] Particularly memorable was the visit in 1971 after the Chinese group themselves independently solved the structure of insulin, later than Hodgkin's team but to a higher resolution.
1950 – penicillin G procaine; 1952 – erythromycin, the first macrolide [2] 1954 – benzathine penicillin; 1955 – spiramycin; 1955 – tetracycline; 1955 – thiamphenicol; 1955 – vancomycin, the first glycopeptide; 1956 – phenoxymethylpenicillin; 1958 – colistin, the first polymyxin; 1958 – demeclocycline; 1959 – virginiamycin ...
The 1961 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica vol.9 p.371 Title: Fleming, Sir Alexander - states that his discovery of the antibacterial powers of the mold from which penicillin is derived was made in 1928 and was a "triumph of accident and shrewd observation."
How the Microwave Was Invented by Accident Pictorial Parade - Getty Images Yes, the microwave oven was invented accidentally, when a test for a magnetron melted an engineer’s snack in 1946.