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Rachel Fuller Brown and Elizabeth Lee Hazen, New York State Department of Health researchers who collaborated in the 1940s and 1950s on the world's first antibiotic against fungal infection--nystatin, named after the department--were posthumously inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. The pair, only the second and third women to be so honored, will be inducted in a ceremony in Akron, Ohio, site of the hall, on April 23. Brown and Hazen were among the numerous scientists caught up in the post-World War II rush to develop antibiotics after the discovery of penicillin. They made their discovery from a bacterium found in a clump of dirt--picked up by Hazen on a farm where she was vacationing in Virginia--and produced a practical antibiotic ...
