"The mold that made penicillin, Alexander Fleming." The medallion once belonging to Fleming's niece will go on sale at Bonhams auction house in October . The listing estimates the piece will sell ...

Photo: Alexander Fleming's photo of the dish with bacteria and Penicillin mold. Alexander Fleming returned to his research laboratory at St. Mary's Hospital in London after World War I.

The ‘Penicillin Girls’ Made One of the World’s Most Life-Saving Discoveries Possible The true, forgotten and sometimes-stinky history of the cohort who took Alexander Fleming’s innovation ...

Coghill, along with Kenneth Raper and Dorothy Alexander, his colleagues in the NRRL Fermentation Division, tested hundreds of Penicillium strains to determine whether any of these had higher ...

Alexander Fleming was born on Lochfield Farm in Ayrshire, Scotland on 6 August 1881. He had three siblings and four half-siblings from his father's previous marriage.

In 1928, Englishman Alexander Fleming discovered a strain of mold on some contaminated petri dishes: It was penicillin. It would be another decade before scientists understood the full potential ...

Fleming created the medallion as a gift for his niece and inscribed it with the message: "The mold that made penicillin / Alexander Fleming." ...

Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming recognized the potential of Penicillium mold when he found it growing in his ...

Fleming created the medallion as a gift for his niece and inscribed it with the message: "The mold that made penicillin / Alexander Fleming." ...