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A short podcast looking at the life and career of Dorothy Hodgkin, who discovered the structures of penicillin, insulin, and vitamin B12 through her ground-breaking approach to crystallography. Part of The...
A two-disc retrospective on documentary filmmaker Kay Mander, featuring ten of her films from the 1940s along with Dr Adele Carroll’s 2001 film featuring Kay Mander, at home in Kirkcudbrightshire,...
Breaking the Mould tells the story behind the discovery of penicillin and the forgotten people involved. A revealing, poignant and witty character driven account of a scientific miracle. September 1943....
As demand for penicillin has increased over the last half century, it has become necessary to look for ways to produce it in increasingly large quantities. Looks at how penicillin works and how, in the...
Looks at the work of Horward Florey and Norman Heatley in the development of penicillin. Includes footage shot by Florey himself showing how penicillin was administered for the first time to soldiers in...
Sir Edward Penley Abraham FRS (1913-1999) in conversation with Prof. Robert Thomas of Imperial College on 1 May 1990. Abraham and his colleagues at Oxford developed penicillins during the Second World War...
Antibiotics: what they are, how they work, and how they can be improved. Ever since Sir Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic characteristics of the penicillin fungus, the drug industry has been...
About antibiotics, what they are, how they work, and how they can beimproved. Ever since Sir Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic characteristics of the penicillin fungus, the drug industry has been...
Discusses the discovery of the penicillin-producing fungus, and subsequent development of the various forms of penicillin including the semi-synthetic varieties. Actiona and application are fully described.
Demonstrates by means of animation the mode of action at molecular level of penicillins, sulphonamides, erythromycin, nalidixic acid and gramicidin.
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