Penicillin (20th century)
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- Created on: 27-04-17 19:30
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- Penicillin
- Timeline
- 1928
- Fleming discovers mould kills germs
- 1929
- Fleming writes articles but publishes them in a book with an obscure name
- 1937
- Chain + Florey begin research in Oxford after reading article- they gathered a team
- 1940
- Experiment with mice- was successful
- 1941
- tested on human in Oxford
- 1942
- US + Britain fund production
- 1944
- enough penicillin to treat all allied forces wounded on D-day
- 1928
- Factors
- Individuals
- Fleming began to discovery
- Florey + Chain were skilled + supported by a team of scientists
- War
- encouraged mass production to help the wounded
- Chance
- Penicillin accidentally got on the dish
- Scientific method
- extracted and purified, testing on mice
- Government
- funded the research, and mass production
- Technology
- microscopes, apparatus for freeze-drying, growing mediums
- Individuals
- discovery
- Fleming realised by chance a fungal spore had landed on his bacteria dish
- the fungus, penicillin, produced a substance that killed bacteria
- Development
- Florey + Chain got a research team and asked to UK gov for funding 3 days after WW2 began
- UK chemical firms were too busy making explosives, so Florey went to the US
- US helped to mass produce Penicillin + WW2 added to the urgency
- Florey and Chain focused on methods to extract + purify it
- Fleming, Florey and Chain were given to nobel prize in 1945
- Florey + Chain got a research team and asked to UK gov for funding 3 days after WW2 began
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