
Do you know who Howard Florey is? Well, he was the Australian scientist who took the initiative to study the science behind what we now call medical penicillin. He was not a friendly man and had even been quoted as saying “I would work with the devil himself-if he were good enough”. In 1938 Florey began his work with a small group of scientists along with Ernst Boris Chain. The duo later won the Nobel Prize for Medicine along with Sir Alexander Fleming.