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Fleming's accidental discovery and isolation of penicillin in September 1928 marks the start of modern antibiotics.
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Modern antibiotics are tested using a method similar to Fleming's discovery
Picado reported his discovery to the Paris Academy of Sciences, yet did not patent it, even though his investigations started years before Fleming's.
The hospital has an Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum where visitors can see Fleming's laboratory, restored to its 1928 condition, and explore the story of Fleming and the discovery and development of penicillin through displays and video.
John Ambrose Fleming's development of an early thermionic valve to help detect radio waves was based upon a discovery by Thomas Edison ( called " The Edison effect "), which essentially modified an early light bulb.
From Fleming's stunned expression, it is clear Graham reports their unexpected odyssey, its three crew fatalities, their discovery on Mars of a once advanced human civilization destroyed long ago by atomic war, and its descendants reverted to barbarism.
Fleming's and penicillin
Fleming's impression was that because of the problem of producing it in quantity, and because its action appeared to be rather slow, penicillin would not be important in treating infection.
This was a higher honour than the knighthood awarded to penicillin's discoverer, Sir Alexander Fleming, and it recognised the monumental work Florey did in making penicillin available in sufficient quantities to save millions of lives in the war, despite Fleming's doubts that this was feasible.
Fleming's and start
He and Paris start dating in Season 5, after Paris's relationship with a much older Professor Asher Fleming ( Michael York ) ends with Fleming's sudden death.
Snyder became Fleming's first manager, encouraged her to start stripping, and gave her the stage name Blaze Starr.
Just before his sudden departure from writing Bond novels at the start of 2003, Benson had indicated his intention to write more short pieces and publish a short story collection along the lines of Fleming's For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy and The Living Daylights.
Fleming's and modern
Julian Symons, in The Times Literary Supplement, considered that it was Fleming's " tautest, most exciting and most brilliant tale ", that the author " brings the thriller in line with modern emotional needs ", and that Bond " is the intellectual's Mike Hammer: a killer with a keen eye and a soft heart for a woman ".
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Sir Almroth Wright strongly supported Fleming's findings, but despite this, most army physicians over the course of the war continued to use antiseptics even in cases where this worsened the condition of the patients.
The popular story of Winston Churchill's father paying for Fleming's education after Fleming's father saved young Winston from death is false.
Fleming's first wife, Sarah, died in 1949.
Fleming's Nobel Prize medal was acquired by the National Museums of Scotland in 1989 and is on display after the museum re-opened in 2011.
Visual effects supervisor William Mesa showed Raimi storyboards he had from Victor Fleming's film Joan of Arc that depicted huge battle scenes and he picked out 25 shots to use in Army of Darkness.
John Henry Fleming's Fearsome Creatures of Florida ( Pocol Press, 2009 ) borrows from the medieval bestiary tradition to impart moral lessons about the environment.
There have been six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis, Christopher Wood, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, Sebastian Faulks and Jeffery Deaver ; a new novel, written by William Boyd, is planned for release in 2013.
Aside from Fleming's brother, a number of others also provided some aspects of Bond's make up, including Conrad O ' Brien-ffrench, Patrick Dalzel-Job and Bill " Biffy " Dunderdale.
Bond's tastes are also often taken from Fleming's own as was his behaviour, with Bond's love of golf and gambling mirroring Fleming's own.
Hoagy Carmichael — Fleming's view of James Bond.
The book was the first to be written after the release of Dr. No in cinemas and Sean Connery's depiction of Bond affected Fleming's interpretation of the character, to give Bond both a sense of humour and Scottish antecedents that were not present in the previous stories.
Fleming's diode was used in radio receivers and radars for many decades afterwards, until it was superseded by solid state electronic technology more than 50 years later.
In literature, Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me ( 1962 ) depicts a French-Canadian Vivienne Michel as a clerk minding the doomed Dreamy Pines Motor Court in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State.
Unlike most of Fleming's work, this storyline does not appear in any of the James Bond films.
Despite the commercial success of Fleming's fantastical anti-Communist novels, other former spies, such as John le Carré and Len Deighton, created anti-heroic men protagonists who used the immoral tactics.
* The first two pages of Ian Fleming's novel Diamonds Are Forever are told from the point of view of an African scorpion which kills and eats a beetle and is then casually crushed and killed itself, by one of the villains whom James Bond would later confront and eventually crush.
In Fleming's original novel, the aircraft is a fictional Villiers Vindicator.
In 1938, working with Ernst Boris Chain and Norman Heatley, he read Alexander Fleming's paper discussing the antibacterial effects of Penicillium notatum mould.
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The Connor family were central to many storylines during 2007 — the accidental death of a Polish worker at Underworld due to overworking, Michelle's discovery that her brothers Paul and Liam were the cause of her husband's death, Paul's use of an escort service, his kidnapping of Leanne and his subsequent death.
After his accidental discovery, Reinitzer did not pursue studying liquid crystals further.
Ninth century Chinese Taoist alchemists discovered black powder while searching for the elixir of life ; this accidental discovery led to experiments as weapons such as bombs, cannon, incendiary fire arrows and rocket-propelled fire arrows.
: In contrast to the earlier accidental discovery of the antiseizure properties of bromide and phenobarbital, phenytoin was the product of a search among nonsedative structural relatives of phenobarbital for agents capable of suppressing electroshock convulsions in laboratory animals.
The goal of reaching the Spice Islands, eventually to be enveloped by the Dutch East Indies Empire, led to the accidental discovery of the West Indies, and lit the fuse of centuries of rivalry between European maritime powers for control of lucrative global markets and resources.
Maureen, born on July 4, 1882, recounts her girlhood in Kansas City, young adulthood, discovery that her family is a member of the long-lived Howard Families ( whose backstory is revealed in Methuselah's Children ), marriage to Brian Smith, another member of that family, and her life until her accidental " death " in 1982.
From the accidental discovery in 1907 that scurvy could be induced in guinea pigs, to their use to prove the chemical structure of the " ascorbutic factor " in 1932, the guinea pig model proved a crucial part of vitamin C research.
Norwegian sailor Gustaf Johansen, the narrator of one of the tales in the short story, describes the accidental discovery of the city: " a coast-line of mingled mud, ooze, and weedy Cyclopean masonry which can be nothing less than the tangible substance of earth's supreme terror — the nightmare corpse-city of R ' lyeh ... loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours ".
Consequently, Alpher and Herman's prediction in support of the big bang was not substantiated until 1964, when Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson made the accidental discovery, for which they were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978.
But the accidental nature of Gunnbjörn's discovery has led to his neglect in the history of Greenland.
The discovery of Kennewick Man was accidental ; a pair of spectators ( Will Thomas and David Deacy ) found his skull while attending the annual hydroplane races.
* 1969: the accidental discovery of a chapel of the small Temple of Hathor.
Faurot's first oil, found along the Ottawa River on May 19, 1885, was more accidental discovery than deliberate scientific experiment.
Plunkett related the story of this accidental discovery at the spring meeting of the American Chemical Society national meeting in the History of Chemistry section, April 1986 in New York City which was published in the Symposium Proceedings.
After Reuters reported on a reentry vehicle's accidental landing and discovery by Venezuelan farmers in mid-1964, capsules were no longer labeled " Secret " but offered a reward in eight languages for their return to the United States.
One of the men subsequently gave an interview providing details of the accidental discovery.
The dramatic accidental discovery of the Muirfield Seamount is often cited as an example of limitations in the vertical datum accuracy of some offshore areas as represented on nautical charts, especially on small-scale charts.
Eijkman had been sent to Indonesia / Dutch East Indies to study Beriberi, a disease of the peripheral nerves, but his discovery of the cause was accidental.
Historians have long argued whether Cabral was Brazil's discoverer, and whether the discovery was accidental or intentional.
Ninth Century Chinese Taoist alchemists discovered black powder in a search for the Elixir of life ; this accidental discovery led to fire arrows which were the first rocket engines to leave the ground.
In 2003 a group led by Mikhail Sazhin reported the accidental discovery of two seemingly identical galaxies very close together in the sky, leading to speculation that a cosmic string had been found.
The Wardian case was the direct forerunner of the modern terrarium ( and the inspiration for the glass aquarium ), and was invented by Dr. Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward ( 1791 – 1868 ), of London, in about 1829 after an accidental discovery inspired him.
The inventor himself admitted that the discovery of the vulcanizing process was not the direct result of the scientific method, but claims that it was not accidental.
Chivington earned high praise for his decisive stroke at Johnson's Ranch, even though his discovery of the Confederate supply train was accidental.
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