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10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn
...managed to isolate the antibiotic and mass produce the drug, something Fleming could not manage. Fleming was self-depreciating about his part in the development of penicillin but since he was the first to discover the properties of it he had the honour of naming it. By D-Day in 1944, enough penicillin had been produced to treat all the wounded soldiers with the Allied...