Penicillin
1928
Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, the first widely used antibiotic.
- Type
- Event
- Date
- 1928
- Place
- London
Who was alive during Penicillin
- Abdolkarim Haeri Yazdi 1859–1937, ayatollah
- Arthur Conan Doyle 1859–1930, writer
- Albert Einstein 1879–1955, physicist
- Alexander Fleming 1881–1955, physician
- Benito Mussolini 1883–1945, dictator
- Adolf Hitler 1889–1945, dictator
- Agatha Christie 1890–1976, writer
- Babe Ruth 1895–1948, baseball player
- Amelia Earhart 1897–1937, aviator
- Alexander Calder 1898–1976, sculptor
- Al Capone 1899–1947, gangster
- Alfred Hitchcock 1899–1980, director
- Adi Dassler 1900–1978, shoemaker
- Ansel Adams 1902–1984, photographer
- Barbara McClintock 1902–1992, geneticist
- Adolf Eichmann 1906–1962, Nazi officer
- Aristotle Onassis c. 1906–1975, shipping magnate
- Akira Kurosawa 1910–1998, director
- Alan Turing 1912–1954, computer scientist
- Albert Camus 1913–1960, writer
- Arthur Miller 1915–2005, playwright
- Akio Morita 1921–1999, electronics entrepreneur
- Alfredo Di Stéfano 1926–2014, footballer
- Andy Warhol 1928–1987, artist