In this building Howard Florey, Ernst Chain, Norman Heatley & colleagues first isolated and purified penicillin for the treatment of bacterial infection, 1938-1941

by Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board on 29 May 2018

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Sir Ernst Chain FRS
(1906-1979) biochemist

Norman George Heatley OBE
(1911-2004) researcher

Howard Walter Florey
(1898-1968) pharmacologist