"On the Antibacterial Action of Cultures of a Penicillium, with Special Reference to Their Use in the Isolation of B. Influenzæ"
Journal article
By: Alexander Fleming
Date: 1929
Source: Fleming, Alexander. "On the Antibacterial Action of Cultures of a Penicillium, with Special Reference to Their Use in the Isolation of B. Influenzæ. " The British Journal of Experimental Pathology 10, no. 3 (1929): 226–236.
About the Author: Born in Scotland, Alexander Fleming (1881–1955) moved with his brothers to London at the age of thirteen. In 1906 he became a bacteriologist in the Inoculation Department at St. Mary's Hospital, and in 1908 he completed his education at the University of London. He won the Nobel Prize in 1945 for his discovery of penicillin.
Introduction
Research on antibiotics had started over fifty years before Fleming's and has continued ever since. In the 1870s scientists first noted that some materials slowed the growth of organisms. In the 1880s scientists...
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