Alexander Fleming - Man of the Year 1943
This newspaper clipping heralds Fleming as Man of the Year for
his discovery of penicillin. However, Fleming was very modest about
his part in the development of penicillin, describing it as the
'Fleming Myth'. Indeed, after promising trials in the 1930s, he
largely abandoned work on penicillin to scientists Howard Florey
and Ernst Boris Chain at Oxford to research its mass-production,
which was started in late 1941-early 1942. Nevertheless, without
his groundbreaking work, none of the potential of penicillin in
therapeutic use woud have been realised.
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