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brought in by a Peoria housewife in 1943 – and enough penicillin was produced to be made available to the Allied troops in time for the
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Cavender, James C.; Newcomb, Eldon H.; Christensen, Martha (September 1988).
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in 1935. He was awarded a second master's degree in 1931, and a
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to work in the new
Division of Soil Microbiology at the
361:"Kenneth Bryan Raper, 1908–1987: A Biographical Memoir"
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Cavender, James C.; Raper, Kenneth B. (March 1965).
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