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Fleming, Florey, Chain & Penicillin
The 1928 mould on a petri dish, why it took Howard Florey, Ernst Chain and Norman Heatley at Oxford to turn it into a drug, mass production in WWII, the 1945 Nobel, and Fleming's own warning about resistance.
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Key idea
Prereqs: Pasteur & germ theory. Next: Salk & polio; Biology: viruses & bacteria. Sources: Fleming, *Br J Exp Pathol* (1929); Eric Lax, *The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat* (2004); Fleming's Nobel lecture (1945).Next: 1. The discovery