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Sir Alexander Fleming FRS FRSE FRCS [2] (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin.
Sample of penicillin mould presented by Alexander Fleming to Douglas Macleod in 1935. The discovery of penicillin was one of the most important scientific discoveries in the history of medicine. Ancient societies used moulds to treat infections and in the following centuries many people observed the inhibition of bacterial growth by moulds.
Glass phial of British Standard penicillin. The history of penicillin follows observations and discoveries of evidence of antibiotic activity of the mould Penicillium that led to the development of penicillins that became the first widely used antibiotics. Following the production of a relatively pure compound in 1942, penicillin was the first ...
Norman George Heatley OBE (10 January 1911 – 5 January 2004) was an English biologist and biochemist. [1] He was a member of the team of Oxford University scientists who developed penicillin . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Heatley developed the back-extraction technique for efficiently purifying penicillin in bulk.
"Windows" is a song by the English pop group Take That. It was released by EMI Records on 22 September 2023 as the first single from their ninth studio album, This Life (2023). It was written by Take That, and produced by Grammy-winner Dave Cobb with Gary Barlow on lead vocals.
A man (likely Dickson) played "The Song of the Cabin Boy" on the violin into a megaphone used for a partially off-camera phonograph. The film was the first to use the Kinetophone , the first device used in the earliest sound films .
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 November 2024. Song by Pikotaro "PPAP (Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen)" Single by Pikotaro Released 7 October 2016 (2016-10-07) Recorded 2016 Genre J-pop, electro-pop, dance-pop, techno Length 0: 45 Label Avex Music Creative Songwriter(s) Daimaou Kosaka Producer(s) Daimaou Kosaka Pikotaro singles chronology ...
Stewart Sanders Adams OBE (16 April 1923 – 30 January 2019) was an English pharmacist, and bioengineer who was part of a team from Boots which developed the painkiller ibuprofen in 1961.