CHAIN, Sir Ernst Boris (1906 – 1979)

ABRAHAM, Sir Edward Penley (1913 – 1999)

CHAIN, Sir Ernst Boris (1906 – 1979)

Penicillinase.

CHAIN, Sir Ernst Boris (1906 – 1979)

FLOREY, Howard Walter (1898 – 1968) HEATLEY, Norman George (1911 – 2004) GARDNER, Andrew Duncan (1884 – 1977) SANDERS, A. G. JENNINGS, Margaret Augusta (1904 – 1994) ORR-EWING, J.

Proof of the therapeutic action in vivo of penicillin against streptococcal and other bacterial infections. Building upon Fleming’s work (No. 1933 and 10784), the consequences of which had originally been widely unapp…

ABRAHAM, Sir Edward Penley (1913 – 1999)

CHAIN, Sir Ernst Boris (1906 – 1979)

FLOREY, Howard Walter (1898 – 1968) HEATLEY, Norman George (1911 – 2004) GARDNER, Andrew Duncan (1884 – 1977) JENNINGS, Margaret Augusta (1904 – 1994)

FLETCHER, Charles M.

First report of the chemotherapeutic action of penicillin on humans (10 cases).

ABRAHAM, Sir Edward Penley (1913 – 1999)

CHAIN, Sir Ernst Boris (1906 – 1979)

Abraham and Chain first announced the purification of penicillin, a critical step before production of the drug could begin, in a two paragraph paper published on a single page of Nature on March 21, 1942. The method,…

ABRAHAM, Sir Edward Penley (1913 – 1999)

CHAIN, Sir Ernst Boris (1906 – 1979)

ROBINSON, Sir Robert (1886 – 1975) & et al.

With W. Baker.

ABRAHAM, Sir Edward Penley (1913 – 1999)

CHAIN, Sir Ernst Boris (1906 – 1979)

FLOREY, Howard Walter (1898 – 1968) HEATLEY, Norman George (1911 – 2004) SANDERS, A. G. JENNINGS, Margaret Augusta (1904 – 1994) FLOREY, Lady Mary Ethel (1900 – 1966)

Order of authorship of the original set: H. W. Florey, Chain, Heatley, Jennings, Sanders, Abraham, M. E. Florey.