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Living with penicillin

Nature volume 313, pages 327–328 (1985)Cite this article

Howard Florey: Penicillin and After.

By Trevor I. Williams. Oxford University Press: 1984. Pp. 404. £17.50, $25.

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  1. During 1937 Jean Medawar worked on a BSc thesis in the Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford, under the supervision of Florey. With P.B. Medawar she is author of Aristotle to Zoos: A Philosophical Dictionary of Biology, published last year.

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