Norman Heatley
(1911-2004), BiochemistSitter in 1 portrait
Biochemist. A key figure in the development of antibiotic penicillin, Heatley devised an essential method of purification and a system of producing sufficient quantities for the first clinical trials, whilst working with chemist Ernst Chain in pathologist Howard Florey`s team at the William Dunn School of Pathology in Oxford in 1939. Florey`s success in treating six patients at Oxford`s Radcliffe Infirmary were published in The Lancet in August 1941, whilst Heatley`s contributions were recognised 50 years later when he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Medicine from Oxford University in 1990.
by Carolyn Djanogly
bromide print, 26 November 1998
NPG x88344
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