>>17829070 (OP)SIR HOWARD FLOREY Howard Florey is the man who saved millions. Born in Adelaide in 1898, he went on to study medicine where he latched on to the findings of a Scottish professor who discovered that mould produced a natural antibiotic. Florey was convinced this mould "penicillin" could be used to stop infections and cure the injured. In 1940 he tested his theory on eight mice and later said: "We sat up through the night injecting penicillin [into mice] ... it was one of the more exciting moments when we found in the morning that all the untreated mice were dead and all the penicillin-treated ones alive." Penicillin was soon being used on wounded Allied soldiers in World War II, sparing the injured from amputations and saving countless lives. He was awarded a Nobel Prize for his work one of only 14 Australians in history. When Florey died in 1968, then Prime Minister Robert Menzies noted: "In terms of world well-being, Florey was the most important man ever born in Australia."