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Louis Pasteur
He reduced mortality from puerperal fever, and created the first vaccines for rabies and anthrax. He created vaccines by infecting chickens with dead bacteria and noticed that the chickens didn't get sick -
Joseph Lister
Joseph is credited with introducing the idea of sterilizing eguipment and wounds to prevent the spread of bacteria. -
Sir Alexander Fleming
Fleming's accidental discovery and isolation of penicillin in September 1928 marks the start of modern antibiotics. Fleming also discovered very early that bacteria developed antibiotic resistance whenever too little penicillin was used or when it was used for too short a period. -
Selman Waksman
Selman discoverd 20 different antibiotics and won a Nobel Prize for his discovery of an antibiotic for TB. -
Rudolf Emmerich and Oscar Low
Rudolph Emmerich and Oscar Löw, two German physicians who were the first to make an effective medication from microbes, conducted experiments in the 1890s, roughly 30 years after Louis Pasteur showed that many diseases were caused by bacteria and nearly 40 years before the effective prescription of penicillin. They proved that the germs that caused one disease may be the cure for another. -
Gerhard Domagk
Gerhard Domagk is credited with the discovery of Sulfonamidochrysoidine (KI-730) – the first commercially available antibiotic. -
Lloyd Conover
. Conover was part of a team exploring the molecular architecture of the broad-spectrum antibiotics Terramycin and Aureomycin. Both of these drugs had been discovered as natural products produced by Actinomycetes. Working in conjunction with Harvard Professor R.B. Woodward, the team began to recognize that it was possible to chemically alter an antibiotic to produce other antibiotics that were effective in treating various types of illnesses. -
Howard Florey and Ernst Chain
Howard and Ernst were the first to produce penicilin on a large scale and test the full effects of penicilin. -
Staph Infection
Staph infection is found on one third of the population and is very adaptable and resistant to antibiotics. Staph infection became resistant to penicilin only four years after peniclin was mass produced. -
SmithKline Beecham
GSK will recieve up to 200 million dollars by the US Department of Health and Human Services to research antibiotics. GSK is one of the largest pharmecuetical companies in the world and is funded by the HHS to create new antibiotics due to the rapid resistance of bacteria to antibodies.
