ALEXANDER FLEMING

SUMMARY: This offering is a dinner program signed in 1945 by Alexander Fleming the year in which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for discovery of penicillin.Price:$895.00

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Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. Fleming published many articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy. His best-known achievements are the discovery of the enzyme lysozyme in 1922 and isolation of the antibiotic substance penicillin from the fungus Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 .

After returning from a long holiday, Fleming noticed that many of his culture dishes were contaminated with a fungus and he threw the dishes in disinfectant. But on one occasion, he had to show a visitor what he had been researching, and so he retrieved some of the unsubmerged dishes that he would have otherwise discarded, and at that moment he noticed a zone around an invading fungus where the bacteria could not seem to grow. Fleming proceeded to isolate an extract from the mould, correctly identified it as being from the penicillium family, and therefore named the agent penicillin.

Soon after he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1945 he made a triumphant tour of Canada and the United States where he was repeatededly honored. This program was one of the events on that 1945 tour.It was a dinner held in the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia on June 18, 1945.The program measures 6 in. x 8 in. and is a typical dinner program with the menu printed on the inside of the cover and opposite that is the outline of the program and list of speakers as well as some Flemming quotes as demostrated above. The cover is signed Alexander Fleming in dark blue fountain pen ink as shown.With the exception of the toning from age the program is in good condition. The program was folded at one point and the fold is shown.The program is matted and ready for framing.

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Price: $895.00