Howard Florey and his dedicated team's systematic, detailed work transformed penicillin from an interesting observation into a life saver. Emma Burkervisc used to be the tea lady at the Australian ...

That task fell to Dr. Howard Florey, a professor of pathology who was director of the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at Oxford University. He was a master at extracting research grants from ...

He had at least come to the right place. Researchers at Oxford University, led by Howard Florey, an Australian pathologist, and Ernst Chain, a biochemist who had fled Nazi Germany, were developing ...

On May 25, 1940, lethal doses of streptococci bacteria were used to infect eight mice. Four of these were then administered injections of penicillin, helping them to survive days to weeks, even as the ...

Chain and Oxford pathologist Howard Florey were instantly intrigued by Fleming’s bacteria-killing mold, and after that, their research proceeded quickly. By 1940, the Oxford research group, which also ...

By 1940, the Oxford team, guided by Howard Florey, Ernst Chain and Norman Heatley, managed to isolate and purify enough penicillin to save four lives—a major medical breakthrough, even though ...

“I hear you’ve been doing things with my old penicillin. I’d be interested to look around.” Thus Alexander Fleming met Howard Florey. As a battlefield doctor in the Great War, Fleming had fought ...

In 1935, Australian Howard Florey was appointed professor of pathology at Oxford University where he headed up a laboratory. This was a daunting task in an economically depressed time, and seeking ...

1945: Australian Howard Florey shares in Nobel Prize for developing penicillin. Before antibiotics, a scratch – even a small one – could be fatal. Every year, countless people died as minor wounds – ...

As he explains in this readable and positive dual biography, the towering scientific achievements of Howard Florey and Mark Oliphant in the most tumultuous decades of the 20th century are ...