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Ernest Duchesne is the first person to discover Penicillium mold and its capabilities.
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32 years after DUchesne discovers pencillin, Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin and its antibacterial properties. Today, Fleming is credited for first discovering penicillin.
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Fleming wrote original documents about penicillin. He wrote about his findings and the results of his investigation. He published his papers, but the public seemed to have no scientific interest.
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Fleming gave up on penicillin and went on to do other work.
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Howard Florey and Ernest Chain began to work furthur on penicillin, working to develop it as a medicine and mass-produce it.
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Moyer had successfully come up with a method to increase the yields of penicillin by 10 times.
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Florey, Chain, and the British scientists that worked at Oxford headed to the United States with a small package of penicillin to begin to work. Great efforts were made and together they produced a stable, brown powder, as well as invent a mass-production method.
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During his required clinical trials, Moyer proved penicillin to be the most effective antibiotic to date.
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Sir Alexander Fleming and Sir Howard Walter Florey were knighted on this day.
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The 1945 Nobel Prize of Physiology or Medicine is awarded to Sir Alexander Fleming, Sir Howard Walter Florey, and Ernest Boris Chain.
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Moyer was granted a patent for a method of the production of penicillin.
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The first form of penicillin resistant bateria exists, Staphylococcus aureus.
