Howard Florey set up the first laboratory for commercial production and penicillin was being mass-produced in 1944. Australia was the first country to make the drug available for civilian use after World War II.
Alexander Fleming (a Scot), Howard Florey (an Australian) and Ernst Chain (a German) shared a Nobel Prize in 1945 for their work on penicillin.
So Grandma can't be 59.
