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FLEMING
(Sir Alexander, 1881-1955, Scottish Bacteriologist, Discoverer of Penicillin)
Magazine Image of a Crayon drawing of Fleming signed and dated
the sketch shows him seated at a desk, in profile, smoking and has a printed signature as well as the ink signature, 8½” x 7”, no place
His discovery in 1928 of what was later named benzylpenicillin (or penicillin G) from the mould Penicillium rubens has been described as the "single greatest victory ever achieved over disease". For this discovery, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.
Item Date:
1945
Stock No:
42815
£325
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