A fact from George Mackaness appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 December 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that George Mackaness showed that by infecting mice with intracellular bacteria, macrophages could be activated to attack other bacteria?
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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
... that George B. Mackaness showed that isoniazid entered the macrophage to be active against Mycobacterium tuberculosis(pictured)? Source:..."Mackeness (1952) demonstrated that INH enters macrophages and is as active against intracellular tubercle bacilli as against those growing in a liquid medium in vitro" [1]
ALT2... that George B. Mackaness showed that by infecting mice with intracellular bacteria, macrophages could be activated to attack other bacteria? "George Mackaness showed that macrophages from mice infected with intracellular bacteria could launch an indiscriminate attack against unrelated bacteria. "...[2]
This person may well have "used his name in full to distinguish himself from his uncle". And for scientist, it's common that they use their full name when they publish something. But what determines a common name is "the name that is most commonly used". And when I look at sources, this person is much more likely to referred to as George Mackaness than by his full name. Whether this page is the Wikipedia:PRIMARYTOPIC is something that will be a bit easier to determine in a few months' time as currently, page views might be skewed by the recent death. His uncle has very low page views, so the scientist may well be the primary topic and for the time being, I've moved the page accordingly. Schwede66 19:27, 24 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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- N: This QPQ was also used for Template:Did you know nominations/Chronicle of the 20th Century
Please ping when a QPQ is complete for this DYK Z1720 (talk) 20:53, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
