| Description | Says Vannevar Bush is in favour of publication of work on penicillin chemistry - discusses this and the attitude of the Merck group - is going to see Johnson of Ithaca, who has been given task of writing up a general account of penicillin chemistry - comments on this - comments on meeting with Alexander Fleming and discusses Fleming's visit to the USA and press publicity given - comments on possibility of obtaining financial support for Oxford work from USA, particularly from Rockefeller Foundation - comments on apparatus which he would like to buy - visited Rene Dubos' laboratory - comments on composition of medium on which Dubos gets good growth of the tubercle bacillus - comments on meeting with Waksman and comments on streptomycin and streptothricin - everyone accepts the beta-lactam formula for penicillin - comments on this - comments on laboratories he has visited - comments on E Cohn's opinion of Philpot's contributions to the advancement of protein chemistry - gives his impressions of the USA. |