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Howard Florey

Published by Melbourne University Publishing
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

About The Book

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'.

About The Author

Lennard Bickel is an eminent Australian writer and commentator on scientific affairs. Among his other books are The Southern Universe, Facing Starvation, This Accursed Land, The Deadly Element, and Shackleton's Forgotten Argonauts.

Product Details

  • Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing (September 7, 2015)
  • Length: 352 pages
  • ISBN13: 9780522865004

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