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Bound For Glory Scientific Responsibility Bully For Herman Expanded Wellcome Funding "You Are Getting Healthy..." When More Is Less Following Women's Footsteps Date: February 7, 1994, pp.4 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


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Date: February 7, 1994, pp.4

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 ...

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