Evolution of an invention in my field of study

Invention: _Discovery and Development of Penicillin

Origin Fleming began to sort through petri dishes containing colonies of
Staphylococcus, bacteria that cause boils, sore throats and abscesses. He
noticed something unusual on one dish. It was dotted with colonies, save for one
area where a blob of mold was growing. The zone immediately around the
mold—later identified as a rare strain of Penicillium notatum—was clear, as if the
mold had secreted something that inhibited bacterial growth.

Fleming found that his

"mold juice" was capable Penicillin
of killing a wide range of Research at
harmful bacteria, such as
streptococcus, Oxford University
meningococcus and the
diphtheria bacillus.
Then, on February 12,
1941, a 43-year old
Time Their work on the
policeman, Albert
purification and chemistry
Alexander, became the
Line of penicillin began in
first recipient of the Oxford
earnest in 1939, just when
penicillin.
wartime conditions were
beginning to make
research especially
difficult. Increasing the
Yield of Penicillin
Penicillin, WWII
and Commercial
Production

Antibiotics are compounds produced by bacteria and fungi which are capable of
Present killing, or inhibiting, competing microbial species. Penicillin heralded the dawn of
the antibiotic age.