FLEMING ALEXANDER: (1881-1955) Scottish biologist, Nobel Prize winner for Physiology or Medicine ...

FLEMING ALEXANDER: (1881-1955) Scottish biologist, Nobel Prize winner for Physiology or Medicine, 1945. An excellent vintage signed and inscribed 8 x 6.5 photograph of Fleming 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 backgound 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, VG