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Published 07-09-2015
ISBN 9780522865004
Pages 352
Subjects Biography: general
Imprint MUP Digital

Howard Florey

Lennard Bickel

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Published 07-09-2015
ISBN 9780522865004
Pages 352
Subjects Biography: general
Imprint MUP Digital

Biography of Howard Florey, the brilliant Australian who developed penicillin, enabling a mastery of disease and death never before imagined.

Howard Florey was the brilliant, ambitious and sometimes ruthless Australian who developed penicillin, the first antibiotic, enabling a mastery of disease and death never before imagined in human history. This many-sided man was the first Australian to be President of the Royal Society and when he died in 1968, Sir Robert Menzies said 'in terms of world well-being, Florey was the most important man ever born in Australia'.

Lennard Bickel is an eminent Australian writer and commentator on scientific affairs. Among his other books are The Southern Universe, Facing Starvation, This Accursed Land, The Deadly Element, and Shackleton's Forgotten Argonauts.