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 ...

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 ...

THE MOLD IN DR. FLOREY'S COAT: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle. By Eric Lax. John Macrae Books/Henry Holt, 307 pp. $25. WHEN France surrendered to the invading Nazis in the summer of 1940, Winston ...

In February 1941, an Oxford policeman in his early 40s named Albert Alexander lay gravely ill in the city’s Radcliffe Infirmary. Bacteria had spread through his body after a rose thorn scratched his ...

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 ...