Howard Florey: The Making of a Great Scientist

Macfarlane, Gwyn

ISBN 10: 0198581610 / ISBN 13: 9780198581611

Published by Oxford University Press, 1979

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Very good copy in hardcover with very good jacket. First endpaper is corner-clipped. Jacket spine is lightly faded. Front flap is wrinkled.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Howard Florey: The Making of a Great Scientist
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198581610
• ISBN 13: 9780198581611
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • SCIENCE

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Synopsis

Howard Florey was the man who, more than any other, was responsible for the introduction of a penicillin therapy. He was a great experiemental pathologist and the founder of a research school which has had a profound influence on modern medicine, beyond its initiation of the antibiotic era. The author traces the development of Florey"s character and abilities from his childhood background in Australia to his emergence as a Nobel Prize-winning scientist in Oxford. Contents: Preface. Acknowledgements. List of Plates. Historical Introduction. Adelaide. Oxford. Cambridge Via the Arctic. America. London. London and Cambridge. The Discoveries of Alexander Fleming. From Cambridge to Sheffield. The Return to Oxford. A Department Comes to Life. Lysozyme Leads to Penicillin. The Department Becomes a Factory. The Proving of Penicillin. Palmam Qui Meruit Ferat. Epilogue.