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<blockquote>This discovery was made as a result of the largest distributed scientific experiment ever performed to that date, when American soldiers who had fought all over the world were instructed at the end of WWII to collect soil samples from wherever they were, and bring the samples back for screening at Lederle Laboratories for possible anti-bacterial agents produced by natural soil fungi.</blockquote> <blockquote>This discovery was made as a result of the largest distributed scientific experiment ever performed to that date, when American soldiers who had fought all over the world were instructed at the end of WWII to collect soil samples from wherever they were, and bring the samples back for screening at Lederle Laboratories for possible anti-bacterial agents produced by natural soil fungi.</blockquote>
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{{Substituted comment|length=522|lastedit=20160621113715|comment=Please change the spelling
the correct spelling is Dr.Yellapragada Subbarao

His work is worth Nobel prize in Medicine.

# According to the link sourced in the article http://medind.nic.in/jac/t01/i1/jact01i1c1.shtml which is from Journal of Indian Academy of Medicine the correct name is Subbarow at least the name with which he worked so hard in America. So I feel the correct name is Subbarow and it should be changed back to that. ] (]) 11:19, 13 September 2010 (UTC)}}
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Name

Let us discuss topics like this together at Talk:Telugu language - Telugu names.

chinni September 5 2005

Drug??

From the article drug was named in his honor: Subbaromyces splendens..This name is not given to a drug. It is the name of a fungus named after Dr. Y. Subbarow. Subomycin is the proprietary name of Tetracycline. please check --Vyzasatya 18:26, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Looks like it is a fungus (mold) --Vyzasatya 18:35, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
Reference http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/Taxonomicon/TaxonTree.aspx?id=125724


how did he die? it seems he was somewhat young when he passed away. Boonshofter 02:35, 3 November 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Boonshofter (talkcontribs)

Subbarao vs SubbaRow

'Hailing from Andhra as I did, I remember asking how he spelt his name Row and not Rao. As I learnt later he would have been the last man ever to cause a row! If you look at citations of scientific papers - which is the way others use your scientific work and quote it in their publications - SubbaRow turns out to be one of the most highly cited scientists in the entire history of science.'

Such evidence, based upon testimony from a contemporaneous colleague of how the person in question spelt their own name in English, points to the correct transliteration from Telugu, Google Translate notwithstanding, into English of the person's name in this instance being SubbaRow and not Subbarao or any other variation.
1) "History of Medicine: Dr. Yellapragada SubbaRow (1895-1948) - He Transformed Science; Changed Lives" (PDF). Journal of the Indian Academy of Clinical Medicine. 2 (1, 2): 3. 2001.
124.186.104.184 (talk) 12:58, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

A convincing argument. The Scopus index (subscription required) lists 45 papers from 1929 through 1951 that are clearly his, and none by anyone with the name Y. Subbarao before 1960. I'll see about getting the page moved. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 14:27, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

Soil samples collected by American soldiers

The article makes a claim that soil samples were collected by American soldiers and from these aureomycin was isolated. While aureomycin was indeed found from a soil sample, it was actually from a soil sample sent to Benjamin Duggar from another scientist in Missouri.

In the absence of any information that supports it, I suggest removing or editing this line:

This discovery was made as a result of the largest distributed scientific experiment ever performed to that date, when American soldiers who had fought all over the world were instructed at the end of WWII to collect soil samples from wherever they were, and bring the samples back for screening at Lederle Laboratories for possible anti-bacterial agents produced by natural soil fungi.

Ashwan (talk) 16:31, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Assessment comment

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Yellapragada Subbarow/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

Please change the spelling

the correct spelling is Dr.Yellapragada Subbarao

His work is worth Nobel prize in Medicine.

  1. According to the link sourced in the article http://medind.nic.in/jac/t01/i1/jact01i1c1.shtml which is from Journal of Indian Academy of Medicine the correct name is Subbarow at least the name with which he worked so hard in America. So I feel the correct name is Subbarow and it should be changed back to that. Drankush (talk) 11:19, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

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  1. http://umcspace.missouri.edu/historic/buildings/Sanborn/files/aueromycin.pdf
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