Penicillin

Sir Alexander Fleming was a British bacteriologist best known for the discovery of the antibiotic Penicillin. The reason he decided to try and discover a cure is because in those days if you had a disease there was no cure so people died of diseases. Penicillin was needed because in the hospital many people had open wounds. Bacteria that would enter the wound was dangerous because it could poison the blood stream, usually leading to …

…His work was not really looked at again until World War II began and soldiers were dying from their open wounds. Two medical researchers, Howard Florey and Ernest Chain, started looking at Fleming's work with penicillin. After many studies they were able to create a powdered form of Penicillin and the first human was successfully treated. Before long Penicillin was in full production. Fleming, Florey and Chain were awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1945.