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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

ROGERS-LOW, Barbara Wharton (1920 – 2019)

1920 – 2019

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1949

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X-ray crystallographic investigation of the structure of penicillin. IN: Clarke, Johnson, Robinson (eds.) Chemistry of penicillin (1949) 310-67.

HODGKIN, Dorothy Crowfoot (1910 – 1994) ROGERS-LOW, Barbara Wharton (1920 – 2019)

Hodgkin and colleagues, including biochemist Barbara Low, solved the structure of penicillin in 1945, demonstrating, contrary to scientific opinion at the time, that it contains a β-lactam ring. The discovery was orig…