Alexander, Mary

Rose Hammond Emma Walsh John T. Gill Georgie H. James Jas. C. Hammond Susan S. West Robt. D. Alexander Mary J. Johnson Wm. Mettler... 

One of the most important events in the history of antibiotics is the discovery and production of penicillin. In 1928, while investigating staphylococcus variants at St Mary s Hospital in London, Alexander Fleming observed that when a particular strain of mold, Penicillium notatum (named because the cells were pencil-shaped when viewed under a microscope), contaminated these cultures they underwent lysis. Fleming named the active substance penicillin. Unfortunately, because Fleming was such a poor public speaker, his public presentation of his seminal discovery went unheeded, and it took an additional 12 years before the potential of penicillin was realized. 

JOSEPH K. ALEXANDER, senior program officer, served previously as director of the Space Studies Board (1999-2005), deputy assistant administrator for science in the Environmental Protection Agency s Office of Research and Development (1994-1998), associate director of space sciences at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (1993-1994), and assistant associate administrator for space sciences and applications in the NASA Office of Space Science and Applications (1987-1993). Other positions have included deputy NASA chief scientist and senior policy analyst at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Mr. Alexander s own research work has been in radio astronomy and space physics. He received B.S. and M.A. degrees in physics from the College of William and Mary. 

Mary Stephen Lesslie,19 daughter of Andrew J. W. Lesslie of Dundee, was bom in 1901 and educated at Morgan Academy, Dundee. She was only 16 years old when she entered University College, Dundee (now the University of Dundee), graduating with an M.A. (St. Andrews) in 1922, and a B.Sc. (St. Andrews) in 1924. She then completed a Ph.D. (St. Andrews) with Alexander McKenzie (see Chap. 7) on stereochemistry in 1927, her results being published in two papers. 

It was the organic chemist Alexander McKenzie,30 Professor of Chemistry, who attracted a significant number of women chemistry researchers. During his reign from 1914 to 1938, they included Isobel Smith (see below), Nellie Walker (see below), Mary Lesslie (see Chap. 4), Agnes Grant Mitchell, Ethel Luis (see below), and E. R. L. Gow. 

Alexander Fleming (1881-1955). He researched for years on antibacterial substances that would not be harmful to humans. His findings on penicillin were made at St Mary s Hospital, London. 

Mary Alexander, chairman, Universal Oil Products Co., 310 South Michigan Ave., Chicago 4, 111. 

Of the remaining metalloids, germanium is a semiconductor which is used extensively in fibre optics. Polonium was discovered by Pierre and Marie Curie, and named after her native land, which at that time did not exist as an independent country (it was under Russian, Prussian, and Austrian partition). We have already referred earlier to the murder of Alexander Litvinenko by lethal polonium-210-induced acute radiation syndrome. 

GUSTAV EGLOFF, MARY ALEXANDER, end CATHERINE ZIMMER Universal Oil Products Co., Des Plaines, III. 

Alexander Fleming in his laboratory as St Mary s Hospital (From the photographic archives, St Mary s Hospital, Paddington)... 

Water also moves relative to the antennules of crustaceans when they run (e.g., crabs, 11 cm/s, Martinez et al. 1998) or swim (e.g., mysids, 10-18 cm/s, Cowles and Childress 1988 amphipods 4-14 cm/s, Sainte-Marie 1986 isopods, 8-30 cm/s, Alexander and Chen 1990) through the water. What are the orientations of the antennules when crustaceans locomote, and how does the water movement relative to them affect the leakiness of their arrays of aesthetascs ... 

See, for instance, Mary Fitzgerald-Hoyt, Death and the Colleen The Shadow of the Glen , in Alexander G. Gonzalez (ed.). Assessing the Achievement of J.M. Synge (Westport, CT Greenwood Press, 1996), p. 51-... 

Acknowledgment The support of the European Union within the Marie Curie Research and Training Network POLYAMPHI and of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, grant 08-03-336 is gratefully acknowledged. OVB acknowledges the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for support of his stay in the University of Bayreuth. 

Fleming, Sir Alexander (1881-1955) British bacteriologist, born in Scotland. He studied medicine at St Mary s Hospital, London, where he remained all his life. In 1922 he identified lysozyme, an enzyme that destroys bacteria, and in 1928 discovered the antibiotic penicillin. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine with Florey and "Chain, who first isolated the drug. 

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