Who Discovered Penicillin Before Fleming?

Who Discovered Penicillin Before Fleming? Florey’s predecessor, George Dreyer, had written Fleming earlier in the 1930s for a sample of his strain of Penicillium to test it for bacteriophages as a possible reason for antibacterial activity (it had none). However, the strain had been saved at Oxford. How was penicillin first discovered? In 1928 Dr