Sir Alexander Fleming

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Alexander Fleming receives the Nobel Prize from King Gustaf V of Sweden. Photographer unknown. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Sir Alexander Fleming receives the Nobel Prize from King Gustaf V of Sweden on 10 December 1945. Behind Alexander Fleming stands Nobel Laureate Ernst B. Chain.

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Alexander Fleming in the laboratory.

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