Penicillin reports
MS. Abraham 30/C.178-C.186
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Penicillin reports
Shelfmark
MS. Abraham 30/C.178-C.186
Summary
Folders C.178-C.183: Copies of reports entitled 'Ministry of Supply, Penicillin Production Control...Technical Papers Received from USA', 1942-1945. The material includes various different series of reports which were found in a mostly disarranged state. Sequences have been re-constructed where identification was possible.
Included at C.179 is a carbon copy of a typescript by Ernst Chain entitled 'Brief account of the circumstances which led to the discovery of the chemotherapeutic properties of penicillin at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford.
Folders C.184 and C.185: Typescript papers, mostly minutes, etc., regarding the business of the General Penicillin Committee, 1942-1944.
Folder C.186: Correspondence between Sir Robert Robinson and the Therapeutic Research Corporation of Great Britain, October 1942-December 1943; papers regarding meetings on penicillin research, 1942-1943.
Date
1942-1945
Language
English
Physical extent
9 folders
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Collection contents
Archive of Sir Edward Penley Abraham
Research
Early research and research on penicillin
Penicillin reports
