Penicillin - Progress in showing the in vivo bactericidal action of penicillin
Time: 1940
Place: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Details: In 1940, Australian scientist Howard Florey (later Baron Florey) and a team of researchers (Ernst Boris Chain, Edward Abraham, Arthur Duncan Gardner, Norman Heatley, Margaret Jennings, J. Orr-Ewing and G. Sanders) at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford made progress in showing the in vivo bactericidal action of penicillin.
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