Howard Florey (Australian Heroes)

Howard Florey. (Discovery of Penicillin).

Won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945 with Sir Alexander Fleming and Ernest Boris Chain.

His research team investigated the large-scale production of the mould and efficient extraction of the active ingredient, succeeding to the point where, by 1945, penicillin production was an industrial process for the Allies in World War II.