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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.