FLEMING ALEXANDER Photograph Signed and Inscribed To Brian K

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THE DISCOVERER OF PENICILLIN FLEMING, ALEXANDER. Photograph Signed and Inscribed, "To Brian Knight / Alexander Fleming / 1949," image showing a bust portrait drawing of him in labcoat and with silver hair. Signed in the image at bottom left. Label mounted to verso printed with heading: "Wright-Fleming Institute of Microbiology." Approximately 6 1/4x5 inches; remnants of prior mounting on verso. [London?], 1949

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Fleming (1881-1955) was a Scottish bacteriologist whose work led to his discovery of penicillin, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1945.