1923
Lloyd Conover, American chemist and inventor (died 2017)
Lloyd Conover, American chemist and inventor (died 2017)
Lloyd Conover, American chemist and inventor (died 2017)
Lloyd Conover
- Born
- 1923
Lloyd Hillyard Conover was an American chemist and the inventor of tetracycline. For this invention, he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Conover was the first to make an antibiotic by chemically modifying a naturally produced drug. He had close to 300 patents to his name.