"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 ...

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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.

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It is expected to fetch $30,000-$50,000 in an online auction that runs from October 13 to 23. Fleming gave a number of similar medallions to public figures such as Pope Pius XII, Queen Elizabeth ...

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 ...

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

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.

Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming recognized the potential of Penicillium mold when he found it growing in his less-than-tidy lab at St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School in London in 1928 ...

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 ...