Howard Florey & Alexander Fleming
By Shane Maloney
On 2 September 1940, as the Battle of Britain raged, a short, grey-headed man with a dapper bow tie presented himself at the pathology laboratory at Oxford University. “Hullo,” he said to the grouchy, work-absorbed Australian in charge. “I hear you’ve been doing things with my old penicillin. I’d be interested to look around.” Thus Alexander Fleming met Howard Florey. As a battlef
