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 ...

Chain worked on purifying penicillin with Edward Abraham. Norman Heatley improvised methods for extracting penicillin using ether and bedpans (see 'penicillin production' below). A. D. Gardner and ...

Norman Heatley graduated from St John's College ... Although Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, he did not realise its full potential. It was Professor Howard Florey and his team at Oxford who ...

Most people contact the names of Florey and Chain with the story of penicillin, but their team also included a man named Norman Heatley who designed this culture vessel in which to grow the ...

The discovery of the original antibiotic remains one of the most remarkable success stories in medicine. So why do we know ...

applied for funding for penicillin research. He too would struggle to isolate the substance without destroying the mold. A team led by him and the English biochemist Norman Heatley did eventually ...