His best-known discoveries are the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the antibiotic substance penicillin from the mould Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.

He mainly wrote romances, of which Sybil and Vivian Grey are perhaps the best-known today.

Among his best-known films are Cleopatra ; Samson and Delilah ; The Greatest Show on Earth, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture ; and The Ten Commandments, which was his last and most successful film.

* Many safety clutches are not friction clutches, but belong to the interference clutch family, of which the dog clutch ( see below ) is the best-known.

Three of the best-known figures in the sport are George Sappenfield, who privately called the game " Basket Frisbee ", " Steady Ed " Headrick who introduced the first formal disc golf target with chains and a basket, and Dave Dunipace who invented the modern golf disc.

Perhaps the best-known type of planetary engineering is terraforming, by which a planet's surface conditions are altered to be more like those of Earth.

The varying corpus denoted Aesopica or Aesop's Fables includes most of the best-known western fables, which are attributed to the legendary Aesop, supposed to have been a slave in ancient Greece around 550 BCE.

The best-known FFT algorithms depend upon the factorization of N, but there are FFTs with O ( N log N ) complexity for all N, even for prime N. Many FFT algorithms only depend on the fact that is an th primitive root of unity, and thus can be applied to analogous transforms over any finite field, such as number-theoretic transforms.

The best-known exact solutions, and also those most interesting from a physics point of view, are the Schwarzschild solution, the Reissner – Nordström solution and the Kerr metric, each corresponding to a certain type of black hole in an otherwise empty universe, and the Friedmann – Lemaître – Robertson – Walker and de Sitter universes, each describing an expanding cosmos.

Riesling and Silvaner are among the best-known varieties of white wine, while Spätburgunder and Dornfelder are important German red wines.

In the best-known version of this illusion, two circles of identical size are placed near to each other and one is surrounded by large circles while the other is surrounded by small circles ; the first central circle then appears smaller than the second central circle.

Like many other colors ( orange, rose, and violet are the best-known ), indigo gets its name from an object in the natural world — the plant named indigo once used for dyeing cloth ( see also Indigo dye ).

The two best-known are those of " Jadwiga's cross " and " Jadwiga's foot.

The two best-known examples are The Way of Torah: An Introduction to Judaism ( Belmont 2003 ); and Judaism: An Introduction ( London and New York 2002 ; translated into Portuguese and Japanese ).

To date, the best-known examples of an anarchist communist society ( i. e., established around the ideas as they exist today and achieving worldwide attention and knowledge in the historical canon ), are the anarchist territories during the Spanish Revolution and the Free Territory during the Russian Revolution.

The best-known precious metals are gold and silver.

* Enemy characters and items based on mandrakes are found in a number of video games ; the best-known example is the Pokemon Oddish.

The best-known types of reefs are tropical coral reefs which exist in most tropical waters ; however, reefs can also exist in cold water.

Most mood stabilizers are anticonvulsants, with the important exception of lithium, which is the oldest and best-known mood-stabilizing drug.

However, some species exhibit sex-role reversed behavior in which it is males that are most selective in mate choice ; the best-known examples of this pattern occur in some fishes of the family Syngnathidae, though likely examples have also been found in amphibian and bird species.

Nacreous pearls, the best-known and most commercially-significant pearls, are primarily produced by two groups of molluscan bivalves or clams.

Among the best-known applications of entanglement are superdense coding and quantum teleportation.

Following his commercial breakthrough with Alien ( 1979 ), his best-known works are sci-fi classic Blade Runner ( 1982 ), Thelma & Louise ( 1991 ), best picture Oscar-winner Gladiator ( 2000 ), Black Hawk Down ( 2001 ), Matchstick Men ( 2003 ), Kingdom of Heaven ( 2005 ), American Gangster ( 2007 ), Robin Hood ( 2010 ), and Prometheus ( 2012 ).

From the point of view of popularity the best-known member of the Commission was Walter Camp, the Yale athlete whose sobriquet was `` the father of American football ''.

It is one of Gershwin's best-known compositions.

The series, adapting several of the best-known Poirot and Marple stories, ran from 4 July 2004 through 15 May 2005, and has since been shown in repeated reruns on NHK and other networks in Japan.

The instrumental on that album, " Sirius ", eventually became the best-known ( or at least most frequently heard ) Parsons instrumental.

It was during this time that he mentored Fernand Braudel, who would become one of the best-known exponents of this school.

Although the Kebra Nagast is the best-known account of this belief, the belief predates the document.

Mate ( beverage ) | Mate, the Mesopotamia, Argentina | northeastern region's best-known contribution to Argentine cuisine.

The popular MP3 format is probably the best-known example, but the AAC format found on the iTunes Music Store is also common.

An image of the Indian rhinoceros, the image has such force that it remains one of his best-known and was still used in some German school science text-books as late as last century.

This profoundly elegiac work, composed at unaccustomed speed and posthumously premièred, has become Berg's best-known and beloved composition.

Adam of Bremen's best-known work is the Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum ( Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church ), which he began only after the death of the archbishop Adalbert.

" () or " A. B. C's " () is one of the best-known English language alphabet songs, and perhaps the one most frequently referred to as " the alphabet song ", especially in the United States.

The show's best-known and Sondheim's biggest hit song was almost an afterthought, written several days before the start of out of town tryouts.

The prehistory of arithmetic is limited to a small number of artifacts which may indicate conception of addition and subtraction, the best-known being the Ishango bone from central Africa, dating from somewhere between 20, 000 and 18, 000 BC although its interpretation is disputed.

Completed in 1824, the symphony is one of the best-known works of the Western classical repertoire.

She was one of the best-known sex symbols of the 1960s.

One of the best-known and most successful Lions team toured South Africa in 1974 under the esteemed Irish forward Willie John McBride.

Bede's best-known work is the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, or An Ecclesiastical History of the English People.

In the words of Charles Plummer, one of the best-known editors of the Historia Ecclesiastica, Bede's Latin is " clear and limpid ... it is very seldom that we have to pause to think of the meaning of a sentence ... Alcuin rightly praises Bede for his unpretending style.

The work is probably based on the older Mesopotamian genre of the " city lament ", of which the Lament for Ur is among the oldest and best-known.

The battle has remained prominent in the popular consciousness, with perhaps the best-known representation being Felicia Hemans's 1826 poem Casabianca.