Indeed, in “The Mold in Dr. Florey’s Coat,” Eric Lax makes a compelling case that we need to demote Alexander Fleming from the heroic scientific pantheon, replacing him with Howard Florey ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fleming’s findings went unpursued until 1939 when Chain, in collaboration with Howard Florey, “discerned the active antimicrobial component of the substance,” the auction house’s website ...