Alexander Fleming
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Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish physician and microbiologist. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Howard Florey and Ernst Chain "for the discovery of penicillin and its
Fleming in his laboratory, 1943
An advertisement advertising penicillin's "miracle cure"
A commemorative plaque marking Fleming's discovery of penicillin at St Mary's Hospital, London
Fleming in his laboratory in 1943
Howard Florey
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Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Ernst Chain and Sir Alexan
Alexander Fleming
…Fleming (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish physician and microbiologist. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Howard Florey and Ernst Chain "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases". This was the first antibiotic substance…
1930s portrait
Florey Lodge, Sheffield
The Sir William Dunn School of Pathology in Oxford
Florey in his office in 1944