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On this day in 1940, Howard Florey and his team of scientists, including Ernst Chain, Arthur Duncan Gardner, Norman Heatley, M. Jennings, J. Orr-Ewing and G. Sanders published their laboratory results showing the in vivo bactericidal action of penicillin.

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2022-08-24

Have you read Discovery yet? A new episode dropped today! In Chapter 2 we are looking at the discovery- but mostly challenging isolation- of penicillin. https://t.co/JeWEtU4prG

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2021-07-01

Born 1910: biochemist Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, pioneer of X-ray won the in in 1964 for her work in establishing the structure of vitamin B12 & In 1969, she solved the 3D shape of the molecule.

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2019-05-13

In May 1945 Dorothy Hodgkin figured out the molecular structure of penicillin. In 1964 she won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for her work in X-ray crystallography. “I was captured for life by chemistry and by crystals.” She was also a socialist & activist. https://t.co/iELgCL30S4

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2018-05-22