
What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: In this building Howard Florey, Ernst Chain, Norman Heatley & colleagues first isolated and purified penicillin for the treatment of bacterial infection, 1938-1941 Recorded plaque organisation: Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board.
Sir Ernst Chain FRS, Howard Walter Florey, and Norman George Heatley OBE were scientists who successfully isolated and purified penicillin, leading to its development as the first effective antibiotic, fundamentally transforming modern medicine.
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