Howard+Florey,+developed+penicillin

=Howard Florey, developed penicillin=

Sir Howard Florey was born in 1898 in Adelaide, South Australia. He was an Australian scientist.

He is famous for helping to develop the drug penicillin.* Penicillin is a drug that kills germs. It also cures some very bad diseases that can kill people. Penicillin is an antibiotic drug.

The first person to discover penicillin was a scientist called Alexander Fleming in 1928. He knew that penicillin could kill germs but he did not know how to make enough of it to be useful.

IN the 1940s, Howard Florey got the idea of scientists working together in a team to do research. With his team member Ernst Chain, he found a way to make lots and lots of penicillin, enough to cure millions of people in World War 2.

Howard Florey did not make any money from his discovery because he said that penicillin belonged to everyone.

The Queen was so pleased with Howard Florey that she knighted him in 1944. He also shared the Nobel Prize with Alexander Fleming and Ernst Chain from his team.

He died in 1968.
 * Say 'pen-iss-ill-in'.