
Penicillin
In Our Time
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In 1928 bacteriologist Alexander Fleming noticed something odd on the Petri dish he'd left out in his laboratory St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington. The dish was covered with bacteria as expected except for one area around some mold. He realised that something coming from the mold had killed the bacteria. Fleming named the mold's active substance penicillin and went on to win a Nobel Prize of Medicine along with Howard Florian Ernest-Chain. With me to discuss penicillin are more rapidic, Professor of Microbiology at the University of Birmingham,. Christoph Tang, Professor of Cellular Pathology and Prophosorial Fellow at Exeter College and Steve Jones, professor of Genetics
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