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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Visiting his bedside, a gifted young scientist named Norman Heatley noted in his diary that Alexander was “oozing pus everywhere.” Three days later, Alexander became the first infected person ...

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 ...