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Penicillin

In Our Time

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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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