Norman Heatley, 92, a scientist who helped develop penicillin production, died Jan. 5 at his home near Oxford, England, of undisclosed causes.

Norman George Heatley, experimental pathologist: born Woodbridge, Suffolk 10 January 1911; scientific staff, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford University 1936-78; Nuffield Research ...

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 ...

Another vital figure in the lab was a biochemist, Dr. Norman Heatley, who used every available container, bottle and bedpan to grow vats of the penicillin mold, suction off the fluid and develop ...

The race to find a vaccine for the coronavirus echoes the quest to mass produce penicillin in the United States and Britain during World War II ...

Heatley's contribution was belatedly acknowledged in 1990 when Oxford University conferred on him the first honorary doctor of medicine degree in its 800-year history.

By 1940, the Oxford team, guided by Howard Florey, Ernst Chain and Norman Heatley, managed to isolate and purify enough penicillin to save four lives—a major medical breakthrough, even though ...

Norman Heatley, who died on Monday aged 92, was the unsung hero of penicillin production during the Second World War. After Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin by accident in 1928, Heatley ...

Roughly 50 miles north of Fleming’s lab, three Oxford researchers -- Howard Florey, Ernst Chain and Norman Heatley -- at least knew this: If they extracted and produced penicillin in quantity ...