
Penicillin
In Our Time
The Origins of the Nobel Prize
Florian Heatley was appointed to become the chair of pathology Gene Oxford in 1935, three years before they started working on penicillin. Dorothea Hodgkin used X-ray diffraction to try and solve the structure of important biochemical and biological molecules. Steve can tell you how Penicillin works but first we need to know more about their story.
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