Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston (; 24 September 1898 – 21 February 1968) was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Ernst Chain and Sir Alexander...
Margaret Augusta Jennings, Baroness Florey (née Fremantle; 2 December 1904 – 14 November 1994) was a British scientist who was part of the group at the University of Oxford under Howard Florey who worked on the clinical application of penicillin.
Mary Ethel Hayter Florey, Baroness Florey (née Reed; 1 October 1900 – 10 October 1966) was an Australian doctor and medical scientist. Her work was instrumental in the discovery of penicillin. She was part of the team that ran the first trials on...
Reserve Constable Albert Alexander (1896 – 15 March 1941) was the first patient to be treated with injections of penicillin. Albert Alexander was a constable in the police force of the County of Oxford, England. A bombing raid is likely the cause of...
Sir Ernst Boris Chain (19 June 1906 – 12 August 1979) was a German-born British biochemist. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Alexander Fleming and Howard Florey "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect...
The Sir William Dunn School of Pathology is an academic department of the Medical Sciences Division at the University of Oxford in Oxford, England, United Kingdom. The school's research programme includes the cellular and molecular biology of...
Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish physician and microbiologist. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Howard Florey and Ernst Chain "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect...
Prince Tomohito of Mikasa (寛仁親王, Tomohito Shinnō; 5 January 1946 – 6 June 2012) was a member of the Imperial House of Japan and the eldest son of Takahito, Prince Mikasa and Yuriko, Princess Mikasa. He was a first cousin of Emperor Akihito, and was...
The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly significant technological inventions and their inventors, where known. This page lists non-incremental inventions that are widely recognised by reliable sources as having...
The following is a list of spin-offs of the 2002 100 Greatest Britons program produced by the BBC.