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The Inventors of Penicillin
By Sharon Fabian |
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1 The invention of penicillin was a team effort. Dr. Alexander Fleming began it in 1928 at St. Mary's Hospital in London. Then, in 1939, over ten years later, Dr. Howard Florey and his colleagues at Oxford University picked up where Fleming had left off. In 1941, Florey moved to the United States to continue the work. In 1948, Andrew Moyer was still making discoveries about penicillin.