Streptomyces Rimosus
notes: label: Description
content: Benjamin M. Duggar (1872-1956) was a plant physiologist who, after mandatory retirement (at age 70) from the University of Wisconsin, signed up as a research consultant with the Lederle Laboratories in Pearl River, N.Y., leading a team of scientists searching for antibiotic producing fungi. In 1943, Dr. Duggar and his team found the soil sample from which Streptomyces rimosus would be isolated in 1949. That, in turn, led to the development of Tetracycline, an important class of broad-spectrum antibiotics patented in 1953. This vial, which Chas. Pfizer & Co., Inc. donated to Smithsonian, contains some of that antibiotic producing fungi.
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content: Ref: “New Drug Is Found In Antibiotic Field,” New York Times (Sept. 25, 1953), p. 23.
label: Description
content: “Dr. Benjamin Duggar Dies at 84; Led in Discovery of Aureomycin,” New York Time (Sept. 11, 1956), p. 35.
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content: J. C. Walker, “Benjamin Minge Duggar,” National Academy of Sciences, Biographical Memoir (1958).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-08019
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content: M-08019
label: accession number
content: 223479
objectType: label: Object Name
content: biological
label: Object Name
content: antibiotic, soil sample
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall, case: 1 1/8 in x 6 in x 4 1/8 in; 2.8575 cm x 15.24 cm x 10.4775 cm