Howard Florey
The Man Who Made Penicillin
$77.29
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
30 April 1992
Summary
Biography of Howard Florey, the brilliant Australian who developed penicillin, enabling a mastery of disease and death never before imagined.Howard Florey was the brilliant, ambitious and sometimes ruthless Australian who developed penicillin, the first antibiotic, enabling a mastery of disease and death never before imagined in human history.The penicillin epic traces the fascinating, often frustrated path of Florey’s drive in Britain and the United States to isolate, test and produce the ‘m…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522847123 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522847129 |
| Author: | Lennard Bickel |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 30 April 1992 |
| Weight: | 462g |
| Dimensions: | 227mm x 154mm x 26mm |
| Series: | Melbourne University Press Australian Lives S. |
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Lennard Bickel
Lennard Bickel is an eminent Australian writer and commentator on scientific affairs. Among his other books are The Southern Universe, Facing Starvation, This Accursed Land, The Deadly Element, and Shackleton’s Forgotten Argonauts.
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