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MCCORMICK, M. H.

MCCORMICK, M. H.

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Bushnell Photo · The Monterey Public Library · Public domain

1955 CE

#11468

Vancomycin, a new antibiotic. I. Chemical and biologic properties.

Edmund Kornfeld, an organic chemist working at Eli Lilly, first isolated Vancomycin in 1953 from a soil sample collected from the interior jungles of Borneo by a missionary, Rev. William M. Bouw (1918-2006). The organ…