Alexander Fleming’s 1928 discovery of a mold with antibacterial properties was only the first serendipitous event on the long road to penicillin as a life-saving drug. Hannah joined The Scientist as ...

Alexander Fleming returned to his research laboratory ... He published a report on penicillin and its potential uses in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology. Fleming worked with the ...

On this show it’s the turn of Sir Alexander Fleming, who describes how in 1928 he discovered penicillin, which kills some bacteria responsible for serious human infections. The most important ...

Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming recognized the potential of ... the substance “mold juice,” later changing it to “penicillin,” after the fungus that produced it.

It took World War II to revitalize interest in penicillin, and Howard Florey and Ernst Chain picked up the work. In recognition for his contribution, Alexander Fleming was knighted in 1944.

In 1928, Scottish scientist Sir Alexander Fleming made an accidental ... winning the Nobel Prize in 1945 for discovering penicillin, Fleming said: "The thoughtless person playing with penicillin ...

a refugee from Nazi Germany - who developed penicillin further so that it could be produced as a drug. Image caption, Sir Alexander Fleming was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1945 In ...

On this show it’s the turn of Sir Alexander Fleming, who describes how in 1928 he discovered penicillin, which kills some bacteria responsible for serious human infections. The most important ...

It took World War II to revitalize interest in penicillin, and Howard Florey and Ernst Chain picked up the work. In recognition for his contribution, Alexander Fleming was knighted in 1944. With Chain ...