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title: Professor Alexander Fleming
author: Imperial War Museums
source: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/19117/professor-alexander-fleming/
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updated: 2024-06-19
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# Professor Alexander Fleming

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## Image File

[![Professor Alexander Fleming](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/19117.jpg)](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/19117.jpg)

## Image Caption

Synthetic production of penicillin by Professor [Alexander](https://www.worldhistory.org/disambiguation/Alexander/) Fleming, holder of the Chair of Bacteriology at London University, who first discovered the mould *penicillin notatum,* in his laboratory at St Mary's, Paddington, London (1943).

Imperial [War](https://www.worldhistory.org/disambiguation/War/) Museums, Ministry of Information Second World War Colour Transparency Collection, IWM (TR 1468).

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### MLA
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## License & Copyright

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