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PITTENGER, G. E.

PITTENGER, G. E.

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source US Government · Office of Congressman Robert Pittenger · 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…