As I flailed upon my fever bed recently, I was mumbling her poignant lyrics through my delirium — “I’m holding on for dear ...

On May 25, 1940, lethal doses of streptococci bacteria were used to infect eight mice. Four of these were then administered injections of penicillin, helping them to survive days to weeks, even as the ...

1945: Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Howard Walter jointly receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Florey for the discovery of penicillin. 1952: Selman Abraham Waksman ...

Notable alumni include Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist and discoverer of penicillin Alexander Fleming, Nobel Prize-winning chemists Derek Barton and Geoffrey Wilkinson and Queen guitarist and ...

The annual Nobel Prizes must “stand up” for scientific learning and free inquiry in an age when both are under growing threat, the new head of the foundation that oversees the honours has warned.

Fleming received a Nobel Prize and more than 160 public honours for his part in the discovery and development of penicillin, the world's first antibiotic. Heatley received one honorary degree, a DM ...

Sir Alexander Fleming shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in medicine with Ernst Chain and Sir Edward Florey for the discovery of penicillin and its application in curing bacterial infections.

A uthor Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for her “intense poetic prose” on Oct. 10, per a press release by The Royal Swedish Academy.. Kang’s work focuses on “historical ...

Fleming was jointly awarded the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (with Howard Florey and Florey’s assistant Ernst Chain) for the discovery and its use. He used the original mould, grown on ...