Ecological disequilibria: the ecology of natural disturbance and patch dynamics.
Ecological disequilibria: the ecology of natural disturbance and patch dynamics.
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DOI:
10.1126/science.230.4724.434
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发表时间:
1985-10
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影响因子:
56.9
通讯作者:
H. S. Horn
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作者:
H. S. Horn
The history of penicillin is one of the most dramatic tales of the success of modern medical science. Much written about, it has been used as a demonstration of everything from the serendipitous nature of laboratory investigation (as witness Fleming's initial discovery of the moldy petri dish in 1928) to the benefits of wartime intensive project organization. Many participants in the events have published their accounts and numerous biographies have been produced. Most of these works have championed one or another interpretation, giving more or less credit to Alexander Fleming, or to Howard Florey, or to one or another of the institutions or corpora-tions involved. Some historians have tried to make sense of parts of the pic-ture, but fewhave fought through the extensive literature and interviewed on all sides of the still raging disputes. Hob-by's general history has elements of all the earlier approaches but extends be-yond a narrow focus or too partisan an approach. Herselfa central participant in two major early experimental phases of the development, at Columbia Universi-