Streptomyces aureofaciens
name: label: maker
content: American Cyanamid Company. Lederle Laboratories Division
notes: label: Description
content: Petri dish containing Streptomyces aureofaciens prepared by Benjamin Minge Duggar (1872–1956), an American plant physiologist best remembered for his discovery in 1945 of chlortetracycline (Aureomycin), the first of the tetracycline antibiotics, from a bacterium growing in soil.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Dr. Benjamin Duggar Dies at 84; Led in Discovery of Aureomycin,” New York Times (Sept. 11, 1956), p. 35.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Detroit
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Lederle Laboratories Division, American Cyanamide Company, through F.L. Murphy, Director of Exhibits; Accession 198821 (1953)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-06662.02
label: catalog number
content: M-06662.02
label: accession number
content: 198821
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Crude Drug
label: Object Name
content: biological
label: Object Name
content: antibiotic
label: Other Terms
content: Crude Drug; Materia Medica; Drugs
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: streptomyces (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 4 in; x 1.5875 cm x 10.16 cm