Penicillin

By Sabrina101
  • Fleming's birth

    Fleming's birth

    Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, is born near Lochfield, Scotland.
  • Florey's Birth

    Florey's Birth

    Howard Florey is born in Adelaide, Australia. He was important in the penicillin miracle.
  • Fleming goes to medical school

    Fleming goes to medical school

    Fleming qualified at St. Mary's Medical School and went on to study.
  • Chain's Birth

    Chain's Birth

    Ernest Chain, a German Jew, is born in Germany and is very important in the penicillin story.
  • The Discovery

    The Discovery

    In the end of September, Fleming began to notice that a mold, the Penicillum mold, had grown in a colony of bacteria, destroying some of it. He went on study it.
  • The name Penicillin

    The name Penicillin

    Fleming decides to call his "mold juice" Penicillin.
  • Howard Florey and Ernest Chain

    Howard Florey and Ernest Chain

    Howard Florey and Ernest Chain worked on penicillin mold (on the right) at the Oxford Univirsity and tried to find ways to purify and produce it.
  • World War ll begins

    World War ll begins

    World War 2 begins and penicillin is needed.
  • Albert Alexander's Death and Trial

    Albert Alexander's Death and Trial

    Albert Alexander was scratched from shaving and was badly infected. Howard Florey and his collleagues gave him penicillin. He got better, but they ran out and he died. This also proved penicillin worked.
  • Mass Production

    Mass Production

    Mass production of penicillin starts and is still going on today.
  • The Nobel Prize

    The Nobel Prize

    Alexander won the Nobel Prize in summer 1945 for his great discovery and shared with Howard Florey and Erenst Chain, who helped develop penicillin.
  • The death of a great man

    The death of a great man

    On March 15, 1955, Alexander Fleming died of a heart attack in London at age 73.