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SIR ANDREW DUNCAN, Minister of Supply, has announced that Sir Henry Dale, president of the Royal Society, has been appointed chairman of the Penicillin Committee. The Committee is constituted as follows: Mr. Arthur Mortimer, deputy director of medical supplies, Ministry of Supply (vice-chairman); Dr. V. D. Allison, Ministry of Health; Lieut.-Colonel H. J. Bensted, Army Medical Department, War Office; Prof. R. V. Christie, Medical Research Council, director of the Medical Professorial Unit at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London; Dr. A. N. Drury, Medical Research Council, director of the Lister Institute; Prof. A. Fleming, professor of bacteriology in the University of London (St. Mary's Hospital Medical School); Prof. H. W. Florey, professor of pathology in the University of Oxford; Dr. C. R. Harington, secretary of the Medical Research Council; Prof. I. M. Heilbron, professor of organic chemistry in the Imperial College of Science and Technology and scientific adviser to the Minister of Production; Prof. R. P. Linstead, deputy director of scientific research, Ministry of Supply, professor of organic chemistry, Harvard University; Prof. H. Raistrick, professor of biochemistry in the University of London; Sir Robert Robinson, Waynflete professor of chemistry in the University of Oxford; Sir Russell Wilkinson, military medical adviser, Ministry of Supply; and representatives of firms engaged in the production of penicillin.
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Penicillin Committee. Nature 153, 401 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153401a0
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