penicillin, assay cylinder
date: label: Date made
content: 1940
notes: label: Description
content: Early penicillin assay cylinders, cut and beveled by hand, made early in 1940 -- as described by Dr. Norman G. Heatley, one of the members of the team that developed penicillin in 1940-41 at the Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford. Dr. Heatley obtained these samples for the Smithsonian in 1953 for the museum's exhibition on antibiotics.
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Oxford
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, through Dr. N. G. Heatley; Accession 199422 (1953)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-06697
label: catalog number
content: M-06697
label: accession number
content: 199422
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Penicillin, Assay Cylinder
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)