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Fleming, Alexander (1881 – 1955)

An excellent signed and inscribed 8.25″ X 6.25″  photograph by Alexander Fleming. The scientist is shown seated in a half-length pose within his laboratory at St. Mary´s Hospital in Paddington, London, surrounded by numerous specimen bottles, Petri dishes, a Bunsen burner and other microbiology equipment. A calendar hanging on the wall in the background dates the photograph to September 1943.

Signed by Fleming in fountain pen ink to a light area at the base of the image, ‘To my good friend Johnson Abraham, with kindest regards, Alexander Fleming’. A rare and desirable signed image whose discovery of penicillin (which began on a mouldy Petri dish in 1928) marked the start of modern antibiotics. A few very light, extremely minor surface and corner creases, otherwise in fine condition. Rare and desirable in this format.