Penicillin: World War II infections and Howard Florey

Howard Florey was born in South Australia in 1898. After studying medicine at the University of Adelaide he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to work in Oxford under Sir Charles Sherrington. After subsequently undertaking a PhD at Cambridge and a brief period as Professor of Physiology at The University of Sheffield, he was appointed to a chair in the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at Oxford, where he remained until his retirement.