Penicillin is the drug of the twentieth century. Using a wealth of new research, Robert Bud sets the discovery and use of penicillin in the broader context of social and cultural change across the world. His book will be of great interest t...
Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin in his London lab in 1928 led to its eventual development by a team at Oxford University, headed by Howard Florey and Ernest Chain, yet the pair are rarely remembered. This book goes behind the sc...
Traces the history of penicillin, recounts how it was isolated, studied, and first produced on a commercial scale, and assesses the importance of its discovery.
Traces the life of Chain, a German-born scientist who fled Nazi Germany for England, and discribes his contributions to the development of penicillin, contributions which led to a Nobel Prize.