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- catalog abstract ""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 from its sale. Why this happened, why it took fourteen years to develop penicillin, and how it was finally done is a fascinating story of quirky individuals, missed opportunities, medical prejudice, brilliant science, shoestring research, wartime pressures, misplaced modesty, conflicts between mentors and their proteges, and the passage of medicine from one era to the next.".
- catalog alternative "Mold in Doctor Florey's coat".
- catalog contributor b13153424.
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""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 from its sale. Why this happened, why it took fourteen years to develop penicillin, and how it was finally done is a fascinating story of quirky individuals, missed opportunities, medical prejudice, brilliant science, shoestring research, wartime pressures, misplaced modesty, conflicts between mentors and their proteges, and the passage of medicine from one era to the next.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical notes and bibliography (p. [265]-291) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction : reclaimed life -- Quiet Scot -- Rough colonial genius -- Money talks -- Temperamental continental -- Micro master -- "Without Heatley, no penicillin" -- Eight mice -- Blitzed -- "Will these plans come to grief?" -- Friend in deed -- Kilo that never came -- Laurel wreath of credit -- Thinking in Stockholm -- Makers of great medicine.".
- catalog extent "307 p., [8] p. of plates ;".
- catalog identifier "0805067906".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : H. Holt,".
- catalog subject "615/.3295654 22".
- catalog subject "Bacteriologists Biography.".
- catalog subject "Bacteriology History Popular Works.".
- catalog subject "Biochemists Biography.".
- catalog subject "Chain, Ernst Boris, 1906-1979.".
- catalog subject "Florey, Howard, Baron Florey, 1898-1968.".
- catalog subject "Heatley, Norman George, 1911-".
- catalog subject "Penicillin History Popular works.".
- catalog subject "Penicillins History Popular Works.".
- catalog subject "Penicillins History".
- catalog subject "Physicians Biography.".
- catalog subject "RM666.P35 L39 2004".
- catalog subject "WZ112 .L39m 2004".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction : reclaimed life -- Quiet Scot -- Rough colonial genius -- Money talks -- Temperamental continental -- Micro master -- "Without Heatley, no penicillin" -- Eight mice -- Blitzed -- "Will these plans come to grief?" -- Friend in deed -- Kilo that never came -- Laurel wreath of credit -- Thinking in Stockholm -- Makers of great medicine.".
- catalog title "Mold in Doctor Florey's coat".
- catalog title "The mold in Dr. Florey's coat : the story of the penicillin miracle / Eric Lax.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "Popular works. fast".
- catalog type "text".