Questions › Chapter 3: A long and illustrious history
Which TWO scientists developed penicillin into a drug that could be used?
Choose two answers.
- AErnst ChainRight answer
- BJohn Maynard Keynes
- CHoward FloreyRight answer
- DErnest Rutherford
Answer: Ernst Chain and Howard Florey
After Fleming's discovery, Florey and Chain turned penicillin into a usable medicine, and it was being mass-produced by the 1940s.
From chapter 3 of the handbook, "A long and illustrious history", section "The 20th century". Practice question 242 of 651, written in our own words.