"The Drugs of Microbial Origin"
Essay
By: Kenneth B. Raper and Robert G. Benedict
Date: 1951
Source: Raper, Kenneth B., and Robert G. Benedict. "The Drugs of Microbial Origin." Crops in Peace and War: The Yearbook of Agriculture, 1950–1951. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1951, 734–741.
About the Author: Kenneth B. Raper holds degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, George Washington University, and a Ph.D. in biology from Harvard University. He was principal microbiologist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Northern Research Laboratory. His expertise was the culture of fungi, yeasts, and bacteria. Robert G. Benedict holds a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and is a bacteriologist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Northern Regional Research Laboratory. He discovered two antibiotics and improved the culture of penicillin.
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