🧫 The Accidental Discovery of Penicillin

In this fascinating B1-level Reading Challenge, students read the complete true story of penicillin's discovery. From Fleming's messy laboratory at St Mary's Hospital in 1928, through Florey and Chain's work at Oxford to purify the drug, the heartbreaking first clinical trial on policeman Albert Alexander, the wartime race to mass-produce it in America (including the rotten cantaloupe that changed everything), to Fleming's prophetic Nobel Prize warning about antibiotic resistance.