Word: bacteriologist
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...farming family in 1881. He excelled in school and entered St. Mary's Hospital in London to study medicine. He was a short man, usually clad in a bow tie, who even in his celebrity never mastered the conventions of polite society. Fleming probably would have remained a quiet bacteriologist had serendipity not come calling that fateful September...
...Penicillium. John Tyndall had done so in 1875 and, likewise, D.A. Gratia in 1925. However, unlike his predecessors, Fleming recognized the importance of his findings. He would later say, "My only merit is that I did not neglect the observation and that I pursued the subject as a bacteriologist." Although he went on to perform additional experiments, he never conducted the one that would have been key: injecting penicillin into infected mice. Fleming's initial work was reported in 1929 in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology, but it would remain in relative obscurity for a decade...
BORN: Aug. 14, 1929, Harlan County, Ky. EDUCATION: U of Kentucky, B.S., 1951, M.P.H., 1953 FAMILY: Husband, Robert; three children RELIGION: Episcopalian MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Bacteriologist POLITICAL CAREER: Monroe County legislature, 1975-79; New York Assembly, 1983-86; U.S. House, 1986- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 14117, Rochester...
...September morning in 1928, British bacteriologist Alexander Fleming was discarding used culture plates that had been left in a pile on his laboratory workbench while he was on vacation. He noticed that one of the plates contained a blob of moldy contaminant that had apparently grown from particles wafting in through an open window. Having settled on the jellylike nutriment intended for the cultivation of a type of bacteria called staphylococci, the fungus had grown into a flourishing mass...
Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, Hamilton was professor of pathology at the Woman's Medical School of Northwestern University. During her tenure at Northwestern, Hamilton established herself as a research pathologist and bacteriologist...