Professor Chain - Statalon Interferon

Series

Series Name: London Line (Colour series 2)

Issue

Issue No.

Date Released

1968

Filmed

Apr 1968

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 5

Summary

COI synopsis: In 1945 a young scientist called Ernst Chain was awarded a Nobel Prize for his work on penicillin. Ian Morrison for London Line talks to Professor Chain, now at London University, about his years of work on Statalon and Interferon, part of a complex chain which looks like giving medical science a defence against all viral infections, and being as big a breakthrough as penicillin was.

Keywords

Health and medicine; Science and technology; Inventions and discoveries

Written sources

The National Archives INF 6 /29
COI Microfilm Roll 43 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1394/29

Credits:

Producer: Adam Leys
Editor: Adam Leys
Sponsor: Central Office of Information (COI)
Sponsor: Commonwealth Affairs Office
Sponsor: Foreign Office
Presenter: Howard Williams
Presenter: Ian Morrison
Director: Mark Lawton
Presenter: Michael Smee
Camera: Peter Theirry
Sound: Phil Jay

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