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  • Alexander Flemming
    Famous for finding penicillin
    British doctor and medical researcher
    Left staphylococcus bacteria out while he was on holiday, mould grew on the petri dishes and stopped the germs growing
    Flemming published his research in 1929
    Britain started mass producing penicillin in 1943
    Margaret Hutchinson Roussew developed technology to mass produce penicillin
    15% of soldiers would have died without penicillin.