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Chain, Professor Sir Ernst Boris

Research at Cambridge and Oxford

Penicillin:  research, reports, correspondence

"Preparation from certain bacteria and fungi of strongly bactericidal enzymes, effective against staphylococci, pneumococci and streptococci"

Typescript draft for grant application to the Rockefeller Foundation, submitted by Florey in November 1939

'Report on biochemical research carried out during the year 1941'

2 photographs of apparatus with a ms. Note by N.G. Heatley (1980)

'Report on teaching activities and research during the tenure of an University Demonstratorship in Chemical Pathology in the years 1941-1945'

Carbon copies of Chain's outgoing correspondence, October 1940-July 1945

Letters from colleagues at the Sir William Dunn School, July-October 1945, reporting on penicillin work in progress during Chain's absence in U.S.A.

Miscellaneous correspondence, September-November 1945

Ms flow diagram for a fermentation plant with separate sketch of pipe layout for antifoam tank 'Oxford 2/9-46.  IB'.

Ms. notes on the published literature relating to penicillin 1943-48, arranged under subject headings.   Subjects include 'Lysis by penicillin', 'Penicilinase', 'Production', 'Acquired resistance' and 'Mode of action'.

Ms notes similar to B.32, but on reports from American laboratories sent to the Committee for Penicillin Synthesis of the Medical Research Council under their agreement with the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development.

Undated ms. Notes and diagrams, mainly re penicillin

Undated ms. Notes and diagrams, mainly re penicillin

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