It’s a common medication now, but during World War II, penicillin was hailed as a miracle drug saving thousands of lives. The ...

Alexander Fleming returned to his research laboratory at St. Mary's Hospital in London after World War I. His battlefront experience had shown him how serious a killer bacteria could be, much ...

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 is an Assistant Editor at ...

Original culture for the antibiotic penicillinAn original example of the Penicillin Notatum culture, discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming, it was presented to Major General D C Munro of The ...

The story of penicillin - the first antibiotic used successfully to treat people with serious infectious diseases - begins with a bit of luck. Alexander Fleming, a British scientist, noticed in ...

Around a decade after the Scottish microbiologist’s chance discovery, a University of Oxford team picked up Fleming’s work on penicillin, just as Europe was on the brink of another world war ...

While competing in a game show called ‘The greatest science investigator of all time’, famous scientists from history describe their life’s work and explain why they deserve the title.