https://padlet.com/joshuapirogovsk/ekooo5zxrd4e Josh Pirogovsky en-us 2017-10-26 15:25:17 UTC 2017-10-30 15:49:05 UTC hello@padlet.com joshuapirogovsk https://padlet.com/joshuapirogovsk/ekooo5zxrd4e/wish/200873183 Alexander Fleming was the original inventor of penicillin. 
Both born & died in the UK
Born: August 6th, 1881
Died: March 11, 1955
Alive for 73 years
Shared Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 ]]> 2017-10-26 15:34:10 UTC https://padlet.com/joshuapirogovsk/ekooo5zxrd4e/wish/200873183 joshuapirogovsk https://padlet.com/joshuapirogovsk/ekooo5zxrd4e/wish/200873217 What were the medical advancements made in the 1920's, and how did it change that time?]]> 2017-10-26 15:34:14 UTC https://padlet.com/joshuapirogovsk/ekooo5zxrd4e/wish/200873217 joshuapirogovsk https://padlet.com/joshuapirogovsk/ekooo5zxrd4e/wish/200873239 In 1928, Alexander was putting away Petri dishes full of bacteria when one made him stop and think. Mold was growing on this one Petri dish, and around the mold, the bacteria had been killed. After testing the mold, he found out it was part of the penicillium family, the penicillium notatum in particular. Fleming presented his findings in 1929, but they didn't really get anywhere.. He published a report on penicillin and its potential uses in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology.]]> 2017-10-26 15:34:16 UTC https://padlet.com/joshuapirogovsk/ekooo5zxrd4e/wish/200873239 joshuapirogovsk https://padlet.com/joshuapirogovsk/ekooo5zxrd4e/wish/200887851 It took until 1935 for people to really know about penicillin. In this year, an Austrian named Howard Florey, ]]> 2017-10-26 15:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/joshuapirogovsk/ekooo5zxrd4e/wish/200887851 joshuapirogovsk https://padlet.com/joshuapirogovsk/ekooo5zxrd4e/wish/200889817 Howard Florey was a big part of the discoverer of penicillin.
Born in Australia and died in the United Kingdom
Born: September 24, 1898 
Died: Feb 21, 1968
Alive for 69 years
Shared Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 ]]> 2017-10-26 16:00:33 UTC https://padlet.com/joshuapirogovsk/ekooo5zxrd4e/wish/200889817 joshuapirogovsk https://padlet.com/joshuapirogovsk/ekooo5zxrd4e/wish/201240957 In 1935, Howard became  professor of pathology at Oxford University where he had access to a laboratory.
Florey then hired Ernest Chain. Chain was working on cancer research, and he happened to notice Fleming's article on penicillin. (visit "Ernst Chain" for a continuation). 
Florey then travelled to Illinois with another researcher. There, they discoverd how agriculture could help. Penicillin grew inside corn. Since corn hadn't grown much in Britain, they didn't know a lot about it. After further testing, the penicillin grew 500 times more than before. By the time WWII ended, U.S. companies were making 650 million units a month.


]]> 2017-10-27 15:22:11 UTC https://padlet.com/joshuapirogovsk/ekooo5zxrd4e/wish/201240957 joshuapirogovsk https://padlet.com/joshuapirogovsk/ekooo5zxrd4e/wish/201241977 Ernst Chain played a large amount in the production of penicillin, along with his team. 
Born in Germany and died in Ireland
Born: June 19, 1906 
Died: August 12, 1979
Alive for 73
Shared Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 ]]> 2017-10-27 15:24:19 UTC https://padlet.com/joshuapirogovsk/ekooo5zxrd4e/wish/201241977 joshuapirogovsk https://padlet.com/joshuapirogovsk/ekooo5zxrd4e/wish/201242011 Ernest Chain became immediately interested. Ernest and Howard rounded the whole Oxford Team together, and tried their penicillin on live mice.
After the tests on the mice was successful, they began testing on human subjects. These tests also proved successful.]]> 2017-10-27 15:24:25 UTC https://padlet.com/joshuapirogovsk/ekooo5zxrd4e/wish/201242011 joshuapirogovsk https://padlet.com/joshuapirogovsk/ekooo5zxrd4e/wish/201783469 It took a whole lot of people to figure out what penicillin was and how to manufacture it, but after 17 years, they finally did it. It didn't really happen in the 1920's, but the initial discovery did. ]]> 2017-10-30 15:44:22 UTC https://padlet.com/joshuapirogovsk/ekooo5zxrd4e/wish/201783469