This week, I talk through the discoveries of a few leftover antibiotic classes. I didn't quite have enough for a full episode for each, but I still wanted to throw some credit around.
First up, we have glycopeptides, the first one being vancomycin. Edmund Kornfeld, working at Eli Lilly, is credited with the discovery.
The second class of drugs is quinolones, which are turned up by two companies simultaneously. George Lesher, at the firm Sterling-Winthrop, and Walter Hepworth, at Imperial Chemical Industries, both get some credit.
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