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Louis Pasteur
French Chemist and Microbiologist whois known for his deiscoveries of the principles of vaccination , microbial fermentation and pasteurization. -
Joseph Lister
British surgeon and pioneer of antiseptic sugery. He promoted the idea of sterile surgery and he also introduced carbolic acid which is now ised to sterilize sugery instruments and to clean wounds. -
SmithKline Beecham
GlaxoSmithKline plc is a British multinational pharmaceutical, biologics, vaccines and consumer healthcare company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. -
Rudolf Emmerich and Oscar Low
These two German physicians cinducted several experiments during the 1890's throughout their career. Emmerich and Low were the first to make an effective medication from microbes. They also figured that germs that cause one disease, can be the cure for another. -
Sir Alexander Fleming
Fleming was a scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist. He is best-known discoveries are the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the antibiotic substance penicillin from the mould Penicillium notatum in 1928. -
Gerhard Domagk
German pathologist and bacteriologist credited with the discovery of Sulfonamidochrysoidine. This was the first commercially available antibiotic. -
Howard Florey and Ernst Chain
Scientist who successfully followed up on Alexander Flemings discovery of penicillin in 1928. They were able to produce enough penicillin in 1940 to experiment with its effects on mice. -
Lloyd Conover
The inventor of Tetracycline. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for being the first to make an antibiotic by chemically modifying a naturally produced drug. -
Selman Waksman
Waksman cinducted alot of esearch into organic substances and their decomposition promoted the discovery of Streptomycin, and several other antibiotics. He discovered over twenty antibiotics and introduced procedures that have led to the development of many others. -
1st “bug” to become resistant to penicillin
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a bacterium responsible for several difficult-to-treat infections in humans. It is also called oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (ORSA). MRSA is any strain of Staphylococcus aureus that has developed, through the process of natural selection, resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics, which include the penicillins (methicillin, dicloxacillin, nafcillin, oxacillin, etc.) and the cephalosporins.
