Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat The Story of the Penicillin Miracle

Name: Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat The Story of the Penicillin Miracle
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ISBN: 9780805077780

ISBN-10: 0805077782

ISBN-13: 9780805077780

Edition: 2005

Authors: Eric Lax

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"Admirable, superbly researched . . . perhaps the most exciting tale of science since the apple dropped on Newton's head." —Simon Winchester, The New York Times Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin in his London laboratory in 1928 and its eventual development as the first antibiotic by a team at Oxford University headed by Howard Florey and Ernst Chain in 1942 led to the introduction of the most important family of drugs of the twentieth century. Yet credit for penicillin is largely misplaced. Neither Fleming nor Florey and his associates ever made real money from their achievements; instead it was the American labs that won patents on penicillin's manufacture and drew royalties…

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List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 2/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.23" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Introduction: The Reclaimed Life



The Quiet Scot



The Rough Colonial Genius



The Money Talks



The Temperamental Continental



The Micro Master



"Without Heatley, No Penicillin"



Eight Mice



Blitzed



"Will These Plans Come to Grief?"



The Friend in Deed



The Kilo That Never Came



The Laurel Wreath of Credit



The Thinking in Stockholm



The Makers of Great Medicine


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index