The Story of Penicillin: The View from Oxford in the Early 1950s

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  title={The Story of Penicillin: The View from Oxford in the Early 1950s},
  author={Wolfgang K. Joklik},
  journal={The FASEB Journal},
  year={1996},
  volume={10},
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The story of penicillin begins with Sir Alexander Fleming who was born in Ayrshire in 1889, and spent his entire professional career at St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School in London, first under the tutelage of the famous bacteriologist Sir Almroth Wright, and then as Head of the Wright-Fleming Institute of Microbiology.
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