Greatest Aussie? You Decide
#31
Re: Greatest Aussie? You Decide
Originally Posted by renth
Don't forget Ben Elton
Errrm in that case how about a vote for
Pommy "Germaine Greer"
or
French "Paul Keating"
Maybe American "Rupert Murdoch"
Stuff it
Shhhh Kiwi yes he is no he isnt "Russell Crowe"
#32
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Re: Greatest Aussie? You Decide
florey by a mile. Flemmings role in comparison was minor. In fact when Floreys team invented penicillin with no help from flemming it is a mute point wheter flemming could even rember his original experiment. He certainly never understood the significance of his random discovery.
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Re: Greatest Aussie? You Decide
Originally Posted by ozzieeagle
Errrm in that case how about a vote for
Pommy "Germaine Greer"
or
French "Paul Keating"
Maybe American "Rupert Murdoch"
Stuff it
Shhhh Kiwi yes he is no he isnt "Russell Crowe"
Pommy "Germaine Greer"
or
French "Paul Keating"
Maybe American "Rupert Murdoch"
Stuff it
Shhhh Kiwi yes he is no he isnt "Russell Crowe"
#34
Re: Greatest Aussie? You Decide
Originally Posted by astonished
florey by a mile. Flemmings role in comparison was minor. In fact when Floreys team invented penicillin with no help from flemming it is a mute point wheter flemming could even rember his original experiment. He certainly never understood the significance of his random discovery.
Howard Florey led a large team of scientists at Sir William Dunn School of Pathology in Oxford. The team had previously done work with Fleming's Lysozyme and Florey had read Fleming's paper that described the antibacterial effects of penicillin. In 1938 he chose to try to purify three promising substances, hoping that at least one of them might prove useful. One of the three substances was penicillin.
Sir Henry Harris said in 1998: "Without Fleming, no Chain or Florey; without Chain, no Florey; without Florey, no Heatley; without Heatley, no penicillin." There were many more people involved in the Oxford team, and at one point the entire Dunn School was involved in its production.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Fleming
And I assume you mean "moot" point.
#35
Re: Greatest Aussie? You Decide
Originally Posted by Wol
I'm tempted to nominate Sir Les Patterson.
But won't!
But won't!