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Fleming's birth
Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, is born near Lochfield, Scotland. -
Florey's Birth
Howard Florey is born in Adelaide, Australia. He was important in the penicillin miracle. -
Fleming goes to medical school
Fleming qualified at St. Mary's Medical School and went on to study. -
Chain's Birth
Ernest Chain, a German Jew, is born in Germany and is very important in the penicillin story. -
The Discovery
In the end of September, Fleming began to notice that a mold, the Penicillum mold, had grown in a colony of bacteria, destroying some of it. He went on study it. -
The name Penicillin
Fleming decides to call his "mold juice" Penicillin. -
Howard Florey and Ernest Chain
Howard Florey and Ernest Chain worked on penicillin mold (on the right) at the Oxford Univirsity and tried to find ways to purify and produce it. -
World War ll begins
World War 2 begins and penicillin is needed. -
Albert Alexander's Death and Trial
Albert Alexander was scratched from shaving and was badly infected. Howard Florey and his collleagues gave him penicillin. He got better, but they ran out and he died. This also proved penicillin worked. -
Mass Production
Mass production of penicillin starts and is still going on today. -
The Nobel Prize
Alexander won the Nobel Prize in summer 1945 for his great discovery and shared with Howard Florey and Erenst Chain, who helped develop penicillin. -
The death of a great man
On March 15, 1955, Alexander Fleming died of a heart attack in London at age 73.
