Science and Secrecy

摘要

On 17 September 1945 Robert Coghill, fermentation chief at the US Department of Agriculture's Northern Regional Research Laboratory, Peoria, Ill., wrote a letter to Otto Behens of Eli Lilly and Company. In it he said he was "very sorry that we shall not be able to cooperate with you as closely in the future as we have in the past, because we have discontinued our work on penicillin at this laboratory... the whole problem has lost any semblance of urgency."