Howard Florey

It was not until 1938 that two Oxford University scientists, Howard Florey and Ernst Chain, went back to Fleming's mold, eventually found a way to produce penicillin and, by 1942, showed it could be used to treat infections.

Antibiotics 2008

Feb. 12, 1941: Oxford researchers Howard Florey and Ernst Chain inject the first penicillin into a human.

The Ultimate Miracle Med 2008

In May of 1940, the scientists at Oxford who were responsible for this, Howard Florey and his team, did the first mouse protection trial with penicillin.

The Mold in Dr. Florey�s Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle 2004

And she was literally at death ` s door when her doctor, who was also treating John Fulton (ph), who was a professor at Yale and a friend of Howard Florey ` s, remembered that Fulton, who was just down the hall with a viral infection, by coincidence, had talked about his friend, Howard Florey.

The Mold in Dr. Florey�s Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle 2004

Well, three days later, a letter comes from Oxford, from Robert Robison (ph) at the school of chemistry there, said, Well, gosh, if we ` re going out laurels, we should probably give a nice bouquet to Howard Florey, who ` s actually the guy who turned it into a usable drug.

The Mold in Dr. Florey�s Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle 2004

Howard Florey was an Australian who came to England as a Rhodes scholar in 1922.

The Mold in Dr. Florey�s Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle 2004

I started research under Howard Florey when he was just beginning to develop penicillin.

A Better Mouse Trap Bross, Irwin D.J. 1976

Last year, West - who has played the Ukrainian-Russian son of Pablo Picasso, a Spartan statesman and a French detective - revealed he had decided to accept the part of the Nobel Prize-winning Australian scientist Professor Howard Florey in a BBC drama about the discovery of penicillin in protest against the number of non-English actors playing iconic English roles.

Film | guardian.co.uk Sam Jones 2010

The Wire's Dominic West plays professor Howard Florey, the Australian scientist who worked alongside Alexander Fleming on the discovery of penicillin, and refused to patent it for commercial gain.

The Guardian World News Phelim O'Neill 2010

And, more recently, the work of Howard Florey and his team who, in the 1940s, made the breakthrough that led penicillin to become the mass-produced antibiotic that goes on saving lives today.

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