Alexander Florey: Does That Name Ring A Bell?
One September day in 1928 Alexander Florey left his messy lab and went on vacation, but when he came back he noticed something the caught his attention and soon the attention of everyone.When Alexander came back from his trip he noticed that around the bacteria he was studying there was a mold around the bacteria, and around the bacteria there was a ring. That ring was bacteria free, and the mold was a rare spore called Penicillium notatum. Does that name ring a bell?
To begin, The discovery of penicillin was sheer luck! Alexander Florey actually re-discovered at a St. Mary’s hospital in London, 1928. When testing it he noticed that penicillin was killing a number of disease-causing bacteria. On Page 123 it states, “He observed that a plate culture of Staphylococcus had been contaminated by a blue green mold and that the colonies of bacteria adjacent to the mold were being dissolved.”Dr. Howard Florey and three colleagues began intensive research on Penicillin ability to kill disease-causing bacteria. …show more content…
Sometime by November 26, 1941, Andrew J. Moyer ( the lab’s expert on nutrition molds) had succeeded. He increased the yields of penicillin 10 times. “As production increased from nearly priceless in 1940, to about $20 per dose by 1943, to $0.55 by 1946.” Said Mary Bellis. Andrew Moyer was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. On May 25, 1948 Andrew Moyer was granted a granted a patent for the mass production of penicillin! In Conclusion, penicillin has come a long way in a sense of development. It took a while for penicillin to develop into what is not a super antibiotic. Penicillin has now saved millions of lives and will continue to do
To begin, The discovery of penicillin was sheer luck! Alexander Florey actually re-discovered at a St. Mary’s hospital in London, 1928. When testing it he noticed that penicillin was killing a number of disease-causing bacteria. On Page 123 it states, “He observed that a plate culture of Staphylococcus had been contaminated by a blue green mold and that the colonies of bacteria adjacent to the mold were being dissolved.”Dr. Howard Florey and three colleagues began intensive research on Penicillin ability to kill disease-causing bacteria. …show more content…
Sometime by November 26, 1941, Andrew J. Moyer ( the lab’s expert on nutrition molds) had succeeded. He increased the yields of penicillin 10 times. “As production increased from nearly priceless in 1940, to about $20 per dose by 1943, to $0.55 by 1946.” Said Mary Bellis. Andrew Moyer was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. On May 25, 1948 Andrew Moyer was granted a granted a patent for the mass production of penicillin! In Conclusion, penicillin has come a long way in a sense of development. It took a while for penicillin to develop into what is not a super antibiotic. Penicillin has now saved millions of lives and will continue to do