Permanent historical factsheet

Discovery of Penicillin

Great Britain · Science / Medicine. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

1Records
1928Date range
1Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1928

Alexander Fleming1928

London · Science / Medicine

Discovers penicillin from mold on a sample of bacteria in his laboratory

Names involved

Alexander Fleming

Provenance

This factsheet is generated from stored World History Database records matching the country, broad category, detailed category and exact Event value shown above. Duplicate display records are collapsed; database wording is otherwise preserved. Source provenance varies by record, so formal academic citation should be checked against the relevant primary source, archive or specialist historical reference.