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  2. Alexander Fleming - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Discovery of penicillin - Wikipedia

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    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".

  4. History of penicillin - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Jonas Salk - Wikipedia

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    Jonas Salk was born in New York City to Daniel and Dora (née Press) Salk. His parents were Jewish; Daniel was born in New Jersey to immigrant parents, and Dora, who was born in Minsk, emigrated to the United States when she was twelve.

  6. Norman Heatley - Wikipedia

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    Heatley, although the junior member of the team, possessed a natural gift for ingenuity and invention. It was he who suggested transferring the active ingredient of penicillin back into water by changing its acidity, thus purifying the penicillin. [5] Heatley recorded these trials, carried out on eight mice in May 1940, in his diary: [citation ...

  7. Charles R. Drew - Wikipedia

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    Charles Richard Drew (June 3, 1904 – April 1, 1950) was an American surgeon and medical researcher. He researched in the field of blood transfusions, developing improved techniques for blood storage, and applied his expert knowledge to developing large-scale blood banks early in World War II.

  8. Beer, Beer, Beer - Wikipedia

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    Beer, Beer, Beer", also titled "An Ode to Charlie Mops - The Man Who Invented Beer" [1] and "Charlie Mops", is a folk song originating in the British Isles. The song is often performed as a drinking song and is intended as a tribute to the mythical inventor of beer, Charlie Mops. It was also a song used in the game "A Bard's Tale."

  9. Beecham Group - Wikipedia

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    The Beecham Group plc was a British pharmaceutical company.It was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.Founded by Thomas Beecham who opened the first factory in St Helens, Lancashire in 1859, Beecham focused on marketing the business by advertising in newspapers and using a network of wholesale agents in northern England and in London, rapidly building up the business. [1]