Who devised the extraction method that made penicillin purification possible?
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Norman Heatley
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Who devised the extraction method that made penicillin purification possible?
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Norman Heatley
What did Alexander Fleming name the enzyme that can destroy penicillin?
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penicillinase
In what year did the first clinical trial of penicillin take place?
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1941
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What did Alexander Fleming name the enzyme that can destroy penicillin?
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penicillinase
From what fruit was the high-yielding Penicillium strain isolated?
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Cantaloupe
At which US laboratory was the high-yield penicillin strain discovered?
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Northern Regional Research Laboratory
What did Fleming initially call the penicillin extract?
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Mould juice
What method did Dorothy Hodgkin use to solve penicillin's structure?
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X-ray crystallography
Who determined the molecular structure of penicillin?
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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
What species of Penicillium did Fleming originally discover?
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Penicillium notatum