The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle by Eric Lax

The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle

Eric Lax

320 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced

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Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin in his London laboratory in 1928 and its eventual development by a team at Oxford University headed by Howard Florey and Ernst Chain in 1942 led to the introduction of the most important family of drugs ...

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