Clostridium acetobutylicum, ATCC 824, is a commercially valuable bacterium sometimes called the "Weizmann Organism", after Jewish-Russian-born Chaim Weizmann, then senior lecturer at the University of Manchester, England, used them in 1916 as a bio-chemical tool to produce at the same time, jointly, acetone, ethanol, and butanol from starch.
Clostridium botulinum | Clostridium difficile | Collagenase clostridium histolyticum | Clostridium tetani | Clostridium perfringens | Clostridium | Collagenase ''clostridium histolyticum'' | Clostridium phytofermentans | Clostridium fallax | Clostridium acetobutylicum |
C. acetobutylicum, also known as the Weizmann organism, was first used by Chaim Weizmann to produce acetone and biobutanol from starch in 1916 for the production of gunpowder and TNT.