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Fleming, Sir Alexander, (1881-1955), Knight, Knight, bacteriologist

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Surname: Fleming
Pretitle: Sir
Forenames: Alexander
Gender: Male
Date: 1881-1955
Title: Knight
History: Immunologist and bacteriologist; discoverer of penicillin. Professor of Bacteriology. Nobel Prize for Medicine, 1945. Knighted 1944.
Biography: ODNB link for Fleming, Sir Alexander (1881-1955) Knight Bacteriologist
References: Who Was Who; NCA Rules
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P275724 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P145873 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Sir Alexander Fleming
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1945-1949: Maurice Edelman MP: 1946 and 1947 tours to France, lecturing on the British...
The National Archives, Kew
BW 83/3
2
1901-55: corresp and papers
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 56106-225
3
MSS
Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum
See ASLIB Directory of Literary and Historical Collections 1993
4
MSS
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Archives
See ASLIB Directory of Literary and Historical Collections 1993
5
papers
Medical Research Council
See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
6
papers
Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development
See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
7
papers of Dr Swan, United Sheffield Hospitals, rel to Fleming and penicillin
Sheffield University: Special Collections and Archives
MS 185/3
NRA 9951 Sheffield Uni
8
1950-1953: photographs
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Archives
DP18; DP43
Related record creators
  Record creator Description of relationship Dates Category of relationship
1
Craddock, Stuart, (1903-1972), General Practitioner and researcher into penicillin
worked together on research into penicillin
1929-1955
Associative