He also invented a quick-acting pH electrode and helped to develop an antiserum that was used in WW II for protection against gas gangrene.
[1] Joseph Peter Moloney and his three sisters, whose father died in 1897, were raised in Powassan by their widowed mother.
[1] From 1919 Moloney worked as a research assistant for Connaught Laboratories, a vaccine manufacturer that emerged from the University of Toronto and now belongs to Sanofi.
[1] The Moloney electrode, developed in 1921,[1] is "designed to more accurately and rapidly determine the acidity of bacterial culture broths used in antitoxin and vaccine production.
He was part of the group that successfully developed methods for producing penicillin on a large scale during WW II.
[11] Moloney was deputy director of Connaught Laboratories from 1925 until his retirement in 1961, but continued to work for the company as a researcher and consultant into his ninth decade.