Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.19902

    Portrait of Alexander Fleming

    Date
    1946
    Sitter
    Alexander Fleming (1881 - 1955, British) , Bacteriologist, Bacteriologist
    Creator
    Walter Stoneman (1876 - 1958, British) , Photographer
    Creator - Organisation
    J. Russell & Sons, Photographer
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    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 150mm
    width (print): 95mm
    Subject
    Description
    Seated portrait of Alexander Fleming, his arms crossed over his chest, looking directly out at the camera. Dressed in a white shirt, a black bow tie and a pin- striped suit.

    Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955), Scottish bacteriologist and discoverer of penicillin, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1943. He was joint recipient with Ernst Boris Chain (1906-1979) and Sir Howard Walter Florey (1898-1968) of the Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) in 1945 ‘for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases’.
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