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Alexander Fleming and penicillin maroon plaque
Alexander Fleming · Discoverer of Penicillin
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“Sir Alexander Fleming 1881-1955 discovered penicillin in the second storey room above this plaque”
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1881-1955
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St Mary's Hospital, Praed Street, W2
W2
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Alexander Fleming
discoverer of penicillin, Knight Bachelor, Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, microbiologist, physician, and Nobel Physiology or Medicine Laureate · (1881-1955)
penicillin
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