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Chain, Professor Sir Ernst Boris

Research at Cambridge and Oxford

Historical accounts of the discovery of penicillin

4 pp. ms. draft, describing the early work on penicillin at Oxford, n.d.

'Short account of the events which led to the re-investigation of the chemical and biological properties of penicillin in the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology'

Copies of two letters to 'Professor Burn', 6 and 31 January 1945, re statement on the origin of the penicillin work in Oxford

4 pp. ms. in German re the discovery of penicillin, n.d.

13 pp. typescript draft of letter to the Evening Standard, September 1952, containing an account of the discovery of penicillin

'Alexander Fleming and the history of the penicillin discovery'

'Extract from a lecture on Antibiotics to be given in London in November 1964'

Material arising from the death of Lord Florey in February 1968

Discussion meeting on 'Penicillin and related antibiotics  past, present and future', held jointly by the Royal society and the Royal College of Physicians to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the introduction of penicillin into medicine, 20-21 May 1971.

Correspondence with the Royal Society and others re programme, financial arrangements, invitations to participants, etc., 1970-71

Correspondence with colleagues invited to attend the meeting.  In alphabetic order

Fragmentary ms. drafts and complete typescript of Chain's papers on 'Thirty Years of Penicillin Therapy'

Correspondence re arrangements for publication of contributions to the meeting in Notes and Records of the Royal Society and the Journal of the Royal College of Physicians

Correspondence with recipients of complimentary copies of Chain's paper on 'Thirty Years of Penicillin Therapy'

Typescript draft describing the early work on penicillin, sent to Chain by the Earl of Halsbury, 1971

"The Early Years of the Penicillin Discovery"

"The Discovery of Penicillin and its Curative Properties"

Royal Society discussion meeting on 'Penicillin 50 Years After Fleming', 1-3 May 19979

"The Early Years of the Penicillin Discovery 1929-1941"

Fragmentary ms notes re penicillin, n.d.

18 pp. typescript, autobiographical account including description of the early penicillin  research, n.d., c.1956

18 pp. typescript, autobiographical account including description of the early penicillin research, n.d., c.1956

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