Breakthrough: the True Story of Penicillin

This book is the first complete account for young readers of the development of the first "wonder drug," penicillin, and of the men and women who took part in this extraordinary project. It provides a background for understanding the significance of this breakthrough and the new direction it gave to medical science. Breakthrough: The True Story of Penicillin won the New York Academy of Sciences fifteenth Annual Children's Science Book Award.