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Howard Florey - Australia's Culture Portal

Portrait of Howard Florey, c. You may have never heard of Howard Florey, but his work on the development of the first penicillin-based antibiotic medicines has probably already saved your life. Howard Florey did not discover penicillin. ...

Australia's Nobel laureates - Australia's Culture Portal

Every year since 1901 the Nobel Prize has been awarded for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and for peace. The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. Austral...

Australian inventions - Australia's Culture Portal

Image courtesy of the Sydney Morning Herald. Lawrence Hargrave, who achieved the first powered flight in 1894 with four box kites, was said to be symbolic of many Australian inventors and Australian innovation; 'He was interested in the invention, not th...

Science in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

Sir William Bragg - Nobel Prize for physics, 1915. Bragg shared the prize with his son (also Sir William Bragg). Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet - Nobel Prize for medicine, 1960. ...

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99/30/1 Preserved specimens of 'Penicillium notatum' (penicillin mould) (2), from the laboratories of Howard W. Florey, Oxford, England, 1944. - Powerhouse Museum Collection   (website Powerhouse Museum )

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Powerhouse Museum - Australia Innovates   (website Powerhouse Museum )

Yet the mould was actually making penicillin, the miracle drug of the century. > > The innovation happened in 1939, when Australian medical researcher Howard Florey teamed up with German biochemist Ernst Chain at Oxford University in England. > > Other A...

87/1035 Penicillin ampoules (4) in box, penicillin powder/glass/paper, Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, Melbourne, Victoria, 1944 - Powerhouse Museum Collection   (website Powerhouse Museum )

>User keywords, or 'tags', are words added to object records by other users to enhance their discovery. Medicines > Medicines>>+ 15828 Medicinal products... Penicillin ampoules (4) in box, penicillin powder/glass/paper, Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, M...

2007/183/1 Pamphlets (4), relating to information about penicillin and the influenza vaccine, paper, produced by Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, 1958-1959, printed by Harris-Williams Press, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia /   (website Design Hub - Your online design resource )

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Australian Nobel Laureates - Florey and Penicillin   (website Bright Sparcs )

'[Also, the penicillin research] was not done because of the war, it was started before the war. In 1929 Florey and his colleague, Dr Ernest Chain decided to focus their research on this Penicillin. Thrilled with Florey and Chain's discovery, large scal...

Allergic to penicillin? - Health & Wellbeing   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

Are you really allergic to penicillin? Up to one in ten people have an allergy to penicillin but many more than that claim to be allergic. And if you've been given amoxicillin (Amoxil) and have glandular fever or another infection called CMV, a rash can ...

2007/183/1 Pamphlets (4), relating to information about penicillin and the influenza vaccine, paper, produced by Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, 1958-1959, printed by Harris-Williams Press, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia /   (website Powerhouse Museum )

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2002/87/1 Archive, re his interest in penicillin, Dr. Royal de Rohan Barondes, England/USA, 1944 - 1955 - Powerhouse Museum Collection   (website Powerhouse Museum )

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