The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1945 | Penicillin

A forgotten petri dish. A scientist too lazy to clean his lab before a holiday. And one of the most important medical discoveries in human history. This is the story of Alexander Fleming, Howard Florey, and Ernst Chain — and how a moment of pure accident opened the entire age of antibiotics, saving an estimated hundreds of millions of lives since 1945. ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 – The invention that almost never existed 0:45 – Stockholm, 1945: The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1:15 – A world without antibiotics 2:45 – Who was Alexander Fleming? 5:15 – The mistake that changed everything 9:45 – How penicillin actually works 11:45 – The warning nobody listened to 📚 SOURCES & FURTHER READING This video was researched using multiple sources, including: Britannica, Science History Institute, Historic UK, Biography.com — Fleming's biography and timeline Understanding Animal Research, Hektoen International — Florey and Chain's work at Oxford, the Albert Alexander case NobelPrize.org — Fleming's 1945 Nobel lecture and the official prize record NCBI/PMC — antimicrobial resistance research National WWII Museum, Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS) — penicillin's impact on WWII casualties 🔔 New episode every week — a new Nobel Prize, and why it still matters to you today. 📺 Subscribe to The Nobel Files for more stories behind the world's most famous award — Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economics. #NobelPrize #Penicillin #AlexanderFleming #Antibiotics #History #Science #Medicine #TheNobelFiles