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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.
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 ...
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".
Music critic Nat Hentoff called Guralnick a “…national treasure;” Bob Dylan said Guralnick's book, Last Train to Memphis “…cancels out all others.” [2] Guralnick's first two books, Almost Grown (1964) and Mister Downchild (1967), were collections of short stories published by the Larry Stark Press , a small press in Cambridge ...
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 ...
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."
With their danceable rhythms and soaring, orchestral arrangements, songs like Double Exposure’s “My Love Is Free,” First Choice’s “Let No Man Put Asunder,” and “Hit And Run” by ...
JuiceBox (red, SD card adapter and 1 GB card shown) The Juice Box is a low-cost multimedia player made by toy manufacturer Mattel.The player features a 2.7 in (6.9 cm) screen with a native resolution of 240×160 px [1] and runs μClinux, a microcontroller version of the Linux kernel. [2]