DINNER PARTY INTEL: USDA helps to defeat the Nazis
Seventy-eight years ago this week, Howard Florey and Norman Heatley flew across the Atlantic with vials of freeze-dried penicillin
04 July 2019 - 05:00
1. USDA helps to defeat the Nazis
Seventy-eight years ago this week, Howard Florey and Norman Heatley flew across the Atlantic with vials of freeze-dried penicillin. The two Oxford scientists held what they recognised to be life-saving antibiotics in their hands. They hoped they’d have a better chance of mass-producing the drug there, since the US, which had not yet entered World War 2, had the resources to pull this off...
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