Congratulations to all the girls on March 8. Our combat friends proved their courage more than once and pulled us dirty, dirty men out of the thick of the battle, covered us with sniper fire, night fighter bombs, and tank armor. They connected us to the center, bandaged our wounds, and fed us with a spoon.
And they invented penicillin, led the evacuation, and a lot of other things.
Thank you, dear women! Without you, life is like a gloomy stall on the Vanguard collective farm, and with you, Chateau Bosque and Le Breu combined with the village club.You are our tank commanders, and we are your driver mechanics.
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Didn’t Alexander Fleming create penicillin though?
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In China, the commercial force is only care about the money and advocate this to "女神节“ aka “Goddess day” to promote younger girls to spend more money. And pay no attention to this festival meaning itself. And more ridiculous part is like “Taobao” has completely “move” this festival to 3.7, because that’s a weekend. More outrages part is that some website including taobao banned " International women day” this word on comment area recently.
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A little more complicated. The action of some types of mold (and this is the basis of penicillin) was described by many scientists before the 20th century. In 1928, Fleming once again “accidentally” discovered this effect, but this time he described the action, suggested why it happened. Thus, he seemed to provide a basis for the isolation of pure medical penicillin. This was done in 1940 at Oxford. In 1943, the formula was handed over to the Allies in the United States and mass production began.
At the same time, work was carried out in the USSR (and in general in many countries). In Russia, in 1942, penicillin was described and synthesized by a group of scientists led by women - Zinaida Ermolyeva and Tamara Balezina.
In 1945, the Nobel Prize for the invention of penicillin was awarded to Alexander Fleming, Howard Flory and Ernst Chain.
Therefore, in Western literature, Fleming was “entrenched” in the mind. In the Soviet - Ermolyeva.
This happens very often due to the fact that inventions rarely appear in one day by one person in one country.
Read, for example, about the invention of radio. Different people are considered to be the inventors of radio in their countries. And this is normal for modern science.
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I think this video matches the situation a little. (For fun)
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The discoverer of penicillin, Alexander Fleming, believed that his invention should belong to everyone, and not serve as a source of enrichment, and did not patent it.
In 1941, the USSR requested a sample of the drug from the Allies. The British did not respond for a long time, then forwarded the request to the United States. They demanded thirty million dollars from the Soviet Union. The answer was the work of the Soviet professor Zinaida Vissarionovna Ermolyeva, which, together with assistant T. I. Balezina, managed to develop and grow its own strain of penicillin: “penicillin-crustosum” (Penicillium crustosum) from more than 90 “candidates”. In 1942, its industrial production began.
"This is living water. The most real living water, obtained from mold, " Yermolyeva often repeated. -"We’ll save thousands, maybe millions, of lives. Especially now, when wounded soldiers often die from blood poisoning, gangrene and all sorts of inflammations»
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