University graduates include prominent individuals who have made significant contributions to their fields nationally and internationally,
and include Howard Florey, Lawrence Bragg, Mark Oliphant and Hugh Cairns.
In 1938, however, Howard Florey and his research team at Oxford University took up the challenge of producing a sufficient quantity
of the drug for trials on humans.
In 1939, Australian scientist Howard Florey(later Baron Florey) and a team of researchers(Ernst Boris Chain, Edward Abraham, Arthur Duncan
Gardner, Norman Heatley, Margaret Jennings, J. Orr-Ewing and G. Sanders) at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford made progress in showing the in vivo bactericidal action of penicillin.