{"id":1192690,"date":"2026-09-08T05:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T05:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1192690\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T05:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T05:38:15","slug":"plaque-for-sheffield-scientist-who-helped-saved-millions-of-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1192690\/","title":{"rendered":"Plaque for Sheffield scientist who helped saved millions of lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Other scientists, including Fleming, had tried to use penicillin prior to Paine, but with little evidence of success.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paine shared his findings of successfully using penicillin to treat infection with Fleming and Sir Howard Florey, professor of pathology at Sheffield Medical School from 1932 to 1935.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Along with a team from Oxford, Florey then went on to purify penicillin, conducting the first clinical trial of the drug in 1941.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paine did not publish his research, or maintain clear records, which meant his work could have been lost had it not been publicised in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Francis said: &#8220;We honour and commemorate his life and remarkable achievements in the city where he lived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Paine&#8217;s work is part of the University of Sheffield&#8217;s proud tradition of making discoveries that transform lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The plaque commemorating Paine&#8217;s work has been installed at the University of Sheffield&#8217;s Jessop Building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Other scientists, including Fleming, had tried to use penicillin prior to Paine, but with little evidence of success.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1192691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":["post-1192690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sheffield","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-sheffield","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117233811704126334","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1192690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1192691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1192690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1192690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1192690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}