Norman Heatley, 92, a scientist who helped develop penicillin production, died Jan. 5 at his home near Oxford, England, of undisclosed causes. Penicillin, an antibiotic produced by mold, was ...
Dr. Norman G. Heatley, an Oxford University biochemist who helped revolutionize medicine by isolating early samples of penicillin and helping to convert it into a powerful drug that gave Allied troops ...
Dr. Norman G. Heatley, an Oxford University biochemist who helped revolutionize medicine by isolating early samples of penicillin and helping to convert it into a powerful drug that gave Allied troops ...
Penicillin, antibiotics - we take them for granted, don't we? We swallow those brightly coloured capsules and expect our sore throats and other infections to be cured within days. It is so easy to ...
Few people may recognize the name Norman Heatley. Even the Nobel Committee overlooked him when, in 1945, it awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine jointly to Alexander Fleming of St. Mary’s Hospital and ...
On a quiet evening in the spring of 1940, at a lab on the Oxford University campus, a young British scientist is witnessing nothing short of a miracle. For months now, he and his colleagues have ...
These are good times for the forgotten heroes of science, for the also-rans, for the runners-up. In the last couple of years there have been big and well-received books about Rosalind Franklin, who ...
The Normal Heatley Award Lecture given by Prof Mark Wallace will take place at 16:00 in the Small Chemistry Lecture Theatre, Main Building, Cardiff University. No booking is required to attend the ...