PENICILLIN DISCOVERED ON 15 SEPTEMBER 1928 LATER DEVELOPED AWARDED NOBEL PRIZE 1945
PENICILLIN DISCOVERED ON 15 SEPTEMBER 1928 LATER DEVELOPED AWARDED NOBEL PRIZE 1945 Penicillins are still widely used today, though many types of bacteria have developed resistance following extensive use. Formula C9H11N2O4S Alexander Fleming, who is credited with discovering penicillin in 1928. Sample of penicillium mould presented by Alexander Fleming to Douglas Macleod, 1935 Starting in the late 19th century there had been many accounts by scientists and physicians on the antibacterial properties of the different types of moulds including the mould penicillium but they were unable to discern what process was causing the effect.[23] The effects of penicillium mould would finally be isolated in 1928 by Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming, in work that seems to have been independent of those earlier observations .[24] Fleming recounted that the date of his discovery of penicillin was on the morning of F...