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THE LIFE OF SIR ALEXANDER FLEMING by André Maurois. H/C. First English edition 1959. 293 pp.

THE LIFE OF SIR ALEXANDER FLEMING by André Maurois. H/C. First English edition 1959. 293 pp.

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In 1928 the Scottish physician-scientist Dr Alexander Fleming - teased for his untidy laboratory - returned from a holiday to find mould growing on a Petri dish of Staphylococcus bacteria. He noticed the mould seemed to be preventing the bacteria around it from growing. He soon found that the mould produced a self-defense chemical that could kill bacteria. He named the substance penicillin.

A fascinating biography about the life and struggles of Dr Alexander Fleming, the famous discoverer of penicillin. The book was commissioned by Lady Fleming, who very much wanted André Maurois to write a life biography of her late husband. Being a doctor and bacteriologist herself, she was able to explain the discovery of penicillin and all the early problems of mass production very thoroughly to Maurois - a novelist and biographer, but not a scientist. The manufacture of penicillin, which saved millions of lives, was not an easy road; as with all great discoveries, there was long resistance from colleagues and others. 

First English edition published 1959 by Jonathan Cape, London. Condition: Good. No jacket.

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