Word: actinomycin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...research assistant at the experiment station and began working with soil microorganisms, the starting point of the antibiotics. In 1939 he began studying the relation of the soil organisms to disease. He still keeps in his littered desk samples of the first antibiotic he isolated, in 1940. Called actinomycin, it proved too poisonous for clinical use. But he went on to find others, and to collect some top scientific honors...