Howard Florey: The Making of a Great Scientist

Howard Florey was the man who, more than any other, was responsible for the introduction of a penicillin therapy.

He was a great experimental pathologist and the founder of a research school which has had a profound influence on modern medicine, beyond its initiation of the antibiotic era. The author traces the development of Florey”s character and abilities from his childhood background in Australia to his emergence as a Nobel Prize-winning scientist in Oxford.