Howard Florey The Man Who Made Penicillin

Howard Florey was the brilliant, ambitious and sometimes ruthless Australian who developed penicillin, the first antibiotic, enabling a mastery of disease and death never before imagined in human history. This many-sided man was the first Australian to be President of the Royal Society and when he died in 1968, Sir Robert Menzies said 'in terms of world well-being, Florey was the most important man ever born in Australia'.

Lennard Bickel is an eminent Australian writer and commentator on scientific affairs. Among his other books are The Southern Universe, Facing Starvation, This Accursed Land, The Deadly Element, and Shackleton's Forgotten Argonauts.

List of Illustrations

ix

Author's Note

xi

Prologue

xv

PART 1 FLUCTUATING FORTUNES

Chapters 1--6

3

(78)

PART 2 MIRACLE IN A MOULD

Chapters 7--13

81

(112)

PART 3 THE PRIZE AND THE PRICE

Chapters 14--20

193

(100)

Epilogue

293

(2)

Appendix

295

(7)

Chapter Notes

302

(6)

Index

308

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Howard Florey The Man Who Made Penicillin

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