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.
As with all items sod by THE
HISTORY BUFF, INC. the photograph will come with a certified
opinion of authenticity and a money back guarantee if it
is not as represented on our web site.
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