Howard Florey was the brilliant, ambitious and sometimes ruthless Australian who developed penicillin, the first antibiotic, enabling a mastery of disease and death never before imagined in human history. This many-sided man was the first Australian to be President of the Royal Society and when he died in 1968, Sir Robert Menzies said 'in terms of world well-being, Florey was the most important man ever born in Australia'.
| ISBN: | 9780522847123 |
| Publication date: | 30th April 1992 |
| Author: | Lennard Bickel |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press an imprint of Melbourne University Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 456 pages |
| Series: | Australian Lives |
| Genres: |
Biography: general |