Rachel Brown & Elizabeth Hazen invented nystatin, an anitbiotic used on people & on this "Dutch" tree disease
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Rachel Fuller Brown - Wikipedia  Rachel Fuller Brown (November 23, 1898  January 14, 1980) was a chemist best known for her long-distance collaboration with microbiologist Elizabeth Lee Hazen in developing the first useful antifungal antibiotic, nystatin, while ... but has also been used to combat Dutch Elm disease in trees and to restore artwork...
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Rachel Fuller Brown | Lemelson-MIT Program  Hazen and Brown's Nystatin, still used today under various trade names, not only ... but has even been used to combat Dutch Elm disease in trees and to restore...
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Microbiologist Elizabeth Lee Hazen and chemist Rachel Brown ...  Still used today, it cures a variety of fungal infections and has also been used to ... Elizabeth Lee Hazen (1888-1975) and Rachel Brown (1898-1980) by ... In 1948, Elizabeth Lee Hazen and Rachel Fuller Brown teamed up to develop nystatin, the first ...... The Germans denied them any food and many dutch people died of...
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Elizabeth Lee Hazen and Rachel Brown | Katie Belcher  Both Lee Hazen and Brown invented an anti-fungal antibiotic drug called Nystatin in ... used to treat Dutch Elm's disease and also restore water damage from mold. ... healing something or creating something to make things easier for people.
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MOTHERS OF INVENTIONS - The Washington Post  Mar 12, 1997 ... Hardly anybody recalls that she invented a remote-controlled, jam-proof radio ... And most people have heard of Scotchgard but not of Patsy .... but it also has been used to treat Dutch elm disease and in restoring artwork damaged by mold. ... Ada Lovelace, Elizabeth Lee Hazen (l) and Rachel Fuller Brown,...
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Catharine Littlefield Greene, Brain Behind the Cotton Gin  Mar 4, 2010 ... Catharine Littlefield Greene might be the brains behind the cotton ... said the cotton gin owes its origin to a woman, Catherine Littlefield Green. ... teeth and he nearly quit, but Greene's suggestion to substitute wire for wood proved successful ... Whitney faced challenges of his own when he and Miller began...
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Salem Witch Trials: The Fungus Theory - Neatorama  Oct 15, 2012 ... In the mid 1970s, a college undergraduate developed a new theory. ... BLAME GAME ... One of the byproducts present in ergot-infected grain is ergotamine, which ... Rye was the primary grain grown, so there was plenty of it to be infected. ... theory only accounts for the initial cause of the Salem witch hunts.
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History of Antibiotics - The Discovery by Alexander Fleming  Most important is the discovery of pencillin by Alexander Fleming. ... He joined St. Mary's Medical School and became research assistant to renowned ... It was in 1928 when he observed while experimenting on influenza virus that a common ... Lord) and Chain where researching Antibiotics of which Penicillin was one type.
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Full text of "Khaos Odensland Archive DOCS (The Misanthropic ...  Judah Morris, who wrote the first Hebrew book to be printed in North America, became .... Although she taught at a number of universities in the New York City area, for most ... Tobach was a consistent critic of genetic determinism; one of her most ...... uncleanness which result from the presence of an *am ha-arez or his wife.
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Dutch elm disease - Wikipedia  Dutch elm disease (DED) is caused by a member of the sac fungi (Ascomycota) affecting elm trees, and is spread by the elm bark beetle. The causative agents of DED are ascomycete microfungi. DED is spread in North America by three species of bark beetles (Family: Curculionidae, Subfamily: Scolytinae):
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Frederick Banting, Charles Best, James Collip, and John Macleod ...  Aug 3, 2015 ... Banting and Macleod earned a Nobel Prize for their work in 1923. ... These four Toronto researchers discovered and purified insulin, ... In the early 1920s Frederick Banting and Charles Best discovered insulin under the ... the animal developed a disease indistinguishable from diabetes. .... Taking Control.
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Selman Waksman and Antibiotics - Landmark - American Chemical ...  Selman Waksman called his autobiography My Life with the Microbes. ... Within two years, Waksman came under the tutelage of a more advanced teacher who .... what has become the common termantibioticsfor these therapeutic agents.15 .... Waksman, 60, how he discovered the wonder drug streptomycin in 1943.
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American Chestnut Blight and the Conservation of Chestnut Trees  Since the early 1900's a disease known as Chestnut Blight has infected many ... Blight quickly spread, killing chestnuts and chinquapins, which is another ... In 1904, Chestnut blight appeared infecting trees in New York City and spread .... As a result, a method of conservation has been through hybridizing American species...
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New Amsterdam Governor Peter Stuyvesant | Dutch Ancestors ...  Peter Stuyvesant was director-general of New Netherlands from 1647-1664 ... Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch governor of New Netherland Colony (later New York) ... He later helped to found the first Swedish colony in America, New Sweden, ..... Brought to America by Dutch colonial governor Peter Stuyvesant in the mid to...
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J! Archive - Show #3908, aired 2001-09-05  Internist J.H. Pratt pioneered this "therapy" in 1905 when he brought patients together to discuss how TB made them feel...
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Robert Koch and Tuberculosis - Nobelprize.org  Dec 9, 2003 ... Robert Koch, a German physician and scientist, presented his discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB), on the evening of March 24, 1882. ... If one only considers the productive middle-age groups, tuberculosis carries away one-third, and often more."
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Dutch elm disease - Wikipedia  Dutch elm disease (DED) is caused by a member of the sac fungi (Ascomycota) affecting elm ... DED is spread in North America by three species of bark beetles (Family: ..... the Siberian elm U. pumila as a parent, the source of disease-resistance and .... Mr King does not claim that his trees are immune from DED, but the...
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'If we don't learn from plants, we'll be in serious trouble' - Features ...  Aug 28, 2015 ... Daniel Chamovitz, a U.S.-born expert on plant genetics, explains why our ... the fastest way to communicate is with these vaporous substances. ... substance is emitted and the hornet has learned that its odor signals the presence of worms nearby. .... Send me email alerts for new articles by Ayelett Shani.
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Ask Me A Trivia Question -- 2 --  Topix  Lightning struck when this 18th century inventor met Deborah Read & their common law marriage lasted 44 years. Must be Ben Franklin. Report Abuse. 0. 0.
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Science. World. Exploration. Seek for yourself.  Redhead Gene Could Be Like Extra 21 Years in the Sun  Jersey Shore ... Just one person in a room adds 37 million bacteria to the air every hour. Adolph Hitler...
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Mary Mallon - Wikipedia  Mary Mallon (September 23, 1869  November 11, 1938), better known as Typhoid Mary, was the first person in the United States identified as an asymptomatic carrier of the pathogen associated with typhoid fever.