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Elaborating the possibility of penicillin resistance in clinical conditions in his Nobel Lecture, Fleming said: The time may come when penicillin can be bought by anyone in the shops. Then there is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes to non-lethal quantities of the drug make them resistant ...
The song sold 1.4 million copies, inspiring Putnam to establish the Vitacoustic and Universal Records labels and attracted new clients to record with Putnam at Universal Recording. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In the same year, Putnam made the first recording of a single artist singing more than one line on a recording; it was recorded with Patti Page and ...
Wilhelm Fried Fuchs (later William Fox) was born in Tolcsva, Hungary. [2] [3] His parents, Michael Fuchs [4] and Anna Fried, were both Hungarian Jews.[5] [6] The family immigrated to the United States when William was nine months old and settled in New York City, where they had twelve more children, of whom only six survived.
Selig Polyscope also established Southern California's first permanent movie studio, in the historic Edendale district of Los Angeles. [ 2 ] Ending film production in 1918, the business, which had become known for its film production animals, became an animal and prop supplier to other studios and a zoo and amusement park attraction in East Los ...
The Horsley brothers remained in New Jersey, where their laboratory and offices handled the Hollywood studio's film processing and distribution. Other filmmakers began opening studios in the Hollywood area. On May 20, 1912, the Nestor Film Company merged with the Universal Film Manufacturing Company, [4] headed by Carl Laemmle.
Alexander Fleming had first discovered penicillin by accident in 1928, but at that time believed it had little application. When Florey and his team recognised the potential of the discovery for combating bacterial infection, they faced the problem of how to manufacture penicillin in sufficient quantities to be of use. Heatley, although the ...
William Wadsworth Hodkinson (August 16, 1881 – June 2, 1971), known more commonly as W. W. Hodkinson, was born in Independence, Kansas.Known as The Man Who Invented Hollywood, [1] he opened one of the first movie theaters in Ogden, Utah in 1907 and within just a few years changed the way movies were produced, distributed, and exhibited.
He has written liner notes for albums including Charlie Rich's last album Pictures and Paintings and the last three Jerry Lee Lewis albums Last Man Standing, Mean Old Man and Rock and Roll Time. He began teaching at Vanderbilt University in Nashville in 2005 in the Masters in Fine Arts program, ranked by Poets & Writers Magazine as one of the ...