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Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (2004) 53, 691-692
© 2004 The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Dr Norman Heatley

J. M. T. Hamilton-Miller

Royal Free & University College Medical School, London, UK

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10th January 1911–5th January 2004

Norman Heatley 1 died on 5th January 2004. His passing, a few days before his 93rd birthday, marks the end of a living link between the present day and members of Florey’s team that developed penicillin in Oxford in the early 1940s. Obituaries in newspapers from many parts of the world have paid tribute to his contributions to this project. It was in fact extremely lucky that he was working in Oxford at that time, as he had been offered a Rockefeller Fellowship in Copenhagen, but had decided to stay in England due to the imminent threat of war. He was directly responsible for devising ways of measuring the activity of penicillin in fermentation liquors in concentrations far too low for chemical methods. He also worked out how to . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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